I liked the trombone bit because I played trombone in 1) stage band, 2) concert band, and 3) marching band. Given Bruce's suggestion I should be okay.

Last suggestion: What about instructions to get the environment up and running? Is it assumed that I know how to do this?

Stacy

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 6:36 AM rabbit <rabbit@callistohouse.org> wrote:

I would suggest my approach, especially without heavy gaming requirements. Find your local pawn shop that does computers (out of a handful of local pawn shops, 1 in particular will specialize in computers and 1 in particular will specialize in musical instruments) and go get a low-end laptop (& a trombone!) $200?

I tend to wipe the disk and install Ubuntu, but I’m a long-time Linux lunatic. Windows does just fine.

Best of luck! 🍀

❤️‍🔥🐰

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 07:25, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel@pckswarms.ch> wrote:

Hi

So this might be better on Squeak-dev or Squeak-beginners, but I'll give it a shot:

Squeak is quite light on system resources. It runs fine on a Raspberry Pi 3 with 1G of memory and a small SD Card. On startup it wants about 10% of that 1G of memory.

On disk it should fit well within 150 to 200meg.

I guess this will run Windows though, right? I suspect that the overhead will be larger. Does anyone run on a small Windows system? How is the performance?

cheers

bruce

On 2023-06-08T23:21:49.000+02:00, stacy smith <vet.goldrushstreaming@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings Squeakers,

Please have someone respond to this email since I have never programmed before, and am not sure how to make sure my machine is compatible.

Thanks,
Stacy

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 4:49 PM stacy smith <vet.goldrushstreaming@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings Squeakers,

I am going to purchase myself and my 11 and 13 year old niece and nephew a cheap computer to learn Squeak. Any ideas?

I am looking at the

HP - Stream 11.6" Laptop - Intel Celeron - 4GB Memory - 64GB eMMC - Diamond White

Thanks,

Stacy Smith