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MainboardTerminal
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penk / MainboardTerminal

MainboardTerminal

A Retro-style Computer with a Modern Core

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
856GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A Retro-style Computer with a Modern Core

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-05-10 12:12:26 UTC to 2022-05-19 18:08:39 UTC.

0122022-05-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsMay 102022-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 142022-05-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsMay 19

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 102022-05-10 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-11 00:00:00 UTC220
May 112022-05-11 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-12 00:00:00 UTC000
May 122022-05-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-13 00:00:00 UTC000
May 132022-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-14 00:00:00 UTC000
May 142022-05-14 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-15 00:00:00 UTC000
May 152022-05-15 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC110
May 162022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-17 00:00:00 UTC000
May 172022-05-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-18 00:00:00 UTC000
May 182022-05-18 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-19 00:00:00 UTC000
May 192022-05-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-20 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Sure, it's entirely a coincidence that both https://github.com/brickbots/framedeck/ and https://github.com/penk/MainboardTerminal published 10 days ago, and they're both referenced in this framework announcement. Convenient for Framework that those two projects came out right before their upgrade launch! But I don't just have my own innate cynicism to go on here! The framedeck project write-up actually contains this disclosure: As they were preparing this documentation release, they emailed me to see if I'd be interested in a collaboration of sorts. They would provide one of their laptops and some additional modules for me to build something unique with the only condition being that I released the designs for public use. Which is fine! This is earned media - Framework got some people to make and open source some cool designs. I wasn'
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t sure, last week, why they were doing that now in particular. Now I know why they're pushing that angle, and it makes sense. Goodness, people are touchy.
In The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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