You may remember this majestic vessel from when we wrote about it in 2021, after it had a Raspberry Pi-based makeover to become a fully automated pleasure craft. Sfera Labs’ Ulde Arcidiaco has now upgraded the 63-year-old Norwegian tug to take advantage of both Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5. Raspberry Pi Official Magazine caught up with The Baltic in the latest issue, out now.

In 1962, The Baltic, a 26 metre-long Norwegian tug, took to the oceans. Unlike today, boats of the 1960s were largely manually controlled. Little wonder because the most widely used computer was IBM’s 1401: it had a 16,000-character core memory and weighed several hundred kilos. The 1401 was so expensive that most companies would generally rent one.

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