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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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:

  • 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.

[โ€“] Steve@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago

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