salarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10cross-posted to: retrogaming@lemmy.world
arrow-up13arrow-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 · 5 months agomessage-square1fedilinkcross-posted to: retrogaming@lemmy.world
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 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.
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.