4000 more Pi's on the way from RS and Allied Electronics

Received this from RS and Allied Electronics, I was not amongst the chosen ones, but still buzzing on the demand this thing has created, if I had more time (and fingers) I would love to make a gamified 'Pi Throwing' mini-site with some jazzy canvas FX where the more wealthy could buy Pi and ping it to a validated worthy recipient in an trebuchet style HTML5 app :)

Here's the copy, assuming RS and Allied Electronics don't mind, their copyright and all that stuff reserved.

Dear Customer

This week there’s more good news on availability of Raspberry Pi’s from RS and Allied Electronics. We’ve invited the next 4,000 people in our queue into the Raspberry Pi online store to place their orders. The second batch of boards are on their way to us, and we’ll be shipping those out direct to customers as soon as they arrive in our warehouse.

Many of you want to know when you can place your order for a Raspberry Pi. We’re making good progress with volume production quantities, and that will allow us to invite more people in to the store and place their order. There will be more news on this next week, so please bear with us while we finalise these arrangements. We will be keeping our promise to invite people to order in line with when you first registered with us, so no-one will lose their place in the queue as we move into volume production.

In the meantime keep up-to-date with the latest information regarding Raspberry Pi by visiting DesignSpark. Find out what happened when some initial Raspberry Pi users met-up to discuss using the board as an open-source tool. Read the latest blog from one of our DesignSpark members, an ICT tutor who has just received his Raspberry Pi. Or find out about how your board can be used as a media centre .

Thank you for your continued interest and patience.

http://uk.rs-online.com

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