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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Out of curiosity, what’s the utility in this? Is it meant to be a toy of sorts?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!

But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there's a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB, USB floppy emulator (a MUST have) and an SSD (through adapters). You just can't do that with this animal, can't even add a math coprocessor.

I'd give $20 to have one to play with, that's it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Nostalgia

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably jumping on the popularity of retro gaming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which is about to get a whole lot harder with sony/nintendo shutting down rom sites and abandonware sites. It means you'll need to have the original media the games came on.

And hopefully you can find that copy of Warcraft 2, Tides of Darkness on a cd thats not TOO scratched up.

"This way! No THAT WAY!!!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Archive.org still exists and still has DMCA immunity*, you can get no-intro, goodset & redump sets on there. There is a gap in PC game ISOs currently though afaik, but steam and gog do seem to be good for covering most releases

Failing legal options, those sets will be available forever via BitTorrent

*If you're in the US, please make sure your representative knows how important it is this continues—well, unless they're a republican, in which case, probably better they stay oblivious if they don't already know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Possibly for government use? I know of a few systems running on the oldest software possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Industrial applications might be a thing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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