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"When Vale Campos chose his components, everything had to be available on the
Brazilian market to keep costs low. The result, he says, is a multimedia machine
about half the size of a regular PC that 'might be cheap, but is not trash.'"
"He counts off the computer's attributes on his fingers: a 500-megahertz
processor, 64 megabytes of main memory and 16 MB more on a flash chip that
substitutes for a hard drive."
"There's a 56 kbps modem and the software is Linux-based and, therefore, free.
Because the machine is modular, schools can link a series up to a regular PC
that would act as a server."
"'What we did was imagine a PC and strip off the fat,' said Vale Campos, who got
his doctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University."
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