[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi launched!

[Kevin McCarthy]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:18 AM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I was actually on at the time (by plan) trying to get in and
> order.. I tried for half an hour before giving up and going to bed. It
> appears that all either of their partner sites are now offering is
> "register an interest".
>
>
I too was online last night trying to get a Raspberry Pi. I got into RS
Components during the first 20 seconds or so after the announcement, and
the site hadn't fallen down yet. But, even then, there was no place to
order, just the "register an interest" page.

I then concentrated on Premier Farnell. Their site didn't do nearly as well
as RS, but I eventually managed to get in and get to the R-Pi page. It
looked like you could order from there (or at least pre-order.) I tried and
got as far as the shopping cart page before everything fell apart because
of traffic. I spent close to half an hour trying to get the site to respond
again so I could place my order. When I finally did get through, my cart
was empty and I couldn't get any other pages to load, so I gave up.

Anybody actually get their order in?

-Kevin

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