salarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down112cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.worldretrogaming@lemmy.world
arrow-up1122arrow-down1external-link$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comsalarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.worldretrogaming@lemmy.world
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·6 months agoThis could be very useful to run really old PC tied commercial and industrial equipment. There is a surprising amount of old systems still keeping our lives running in small niche ways. It could be: your school system’s ancient HVAC system an old electron microscope in a biology or materials science lab an old pc based CNC mill The fact that this has all the legacy ports of: IEEE 1284 parallel printer port RS-232 serial port a 16 bit ISA slot breakout! …gives this some of the newest hardware I can think of that still interfaces with old ancient hardware.
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·6 months agoMe, dumpster diving 286 computers 2 decades ago to make backup controllers for a very profitable machine. I wonder if that thing is still operating
This could be very useful to run really old PC tied commercial and industrial equipment. There is a surprising amount of old systems still keeping our lives running in small niche ways. It could be:
The fact that this has all the legacy ports of:
…gives this some of the newest hardware I can think of that still interfaces with old ancient hardware.
Me, dumpster diving 286 computers 2 decades ago to make backup controllers for a very profitable machine.
I wonder if that thing is still operating