One Laptop per Child was a non-profit initiative designed to provide laptops to students without computers. The initial goal was to produce usable laptops for $100 each, though they ended up being closer to $180 by the time they shipped. The first result of this effort was the OLPC XO-1. It was designed to be very low power so that the battery could theoretically be easily charged with a solar panel or hand crank. However, they ended up shipping with a standard power supply. Released in 2007 the XO-1 had the following specs: Read more: https://hive.blog/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-olpc-xo-1
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