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A short history of Raspberry Pi and its models 1

If our readers want to get started with their Raspberry Pi, they will
need the following:

1. A power supply (official Raspberry Pi power supply is recom-
mended for both Raspberry Pi 4 (5V 3A) and 5 (5.1V 5A),
2. A boot media (a good quality, large enough and fast enough mi-
croSD card).
A Raspberry Pi can be set up with:

• A display
• A cable to connect your Raspberry Pi to your display (monitor or
TV)
• A keyboard
• A mouse
Alternatively, Raspberry Pi can be set up as a headless computer ac-
cessible over the network, in which case you do not need any peripher-
als. At the time of installing an operating system, you can preconfigure
a hostname, user account, network connection, and secure shell (SSH:
a method for securely sending commands to a computer over an unse-
cured network).

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