Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.
This is cool but not for $200. That’s way overpriced for something this underpowered.
Companies are actually willing to pay a lot of money for legacy hardware.
Maybe, but this doesn’t seem to be a product made for businesses. It looks like a product designed for hobbyists.
Running anything on a 386 was NOT fun. I don’t think I’d pay $200 for the privilege of hating it all over again.
At the same time, it forced me to learn. Nowadays, every game and app you’d want is a few clicks away, and most likely it’ll just work without having to think about IRQ settings or COM ports or whether there’s enough space on your 50 MB hard disk.
Yeah, but they should have gone with a 486DX, or SX at least. HUGE difference. The 386 was just too damned frustrating, but it was the first work PC I ever laid hands on. For a personal computer, I upgraded from a 286 to a Pentium 200.
Yeah, 486 DX4/100 was the peak of DOS gaming.
Couldn’t this be done with an FPGA?
Probably. Even including the RAM on chip and the rest of the mainboard, too. Take a modern flash chip, and you can emulate a vintage sized HDD with it.
What is their intended market? I see no real use for such a box. Heck, even Linux will probably come to a crawl on that box. And you can probably build something ARM based for the same price with eight gigabytes of RAM and running circles around the 386.
