A couple of unusual computers showed up on AliExpress last month: the Book 8088 is a mini-laptop with an Intel 8088 chip and support for MS-DOS and early versions of Windows, while the Hand 386 is a handheld computer with a QWERTY keyboard, a 386sx-compatible processor and support for operating systems up to Windows 95. […]
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Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB of memory
21 Comments on Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB of memoryMore than four decades after Intel launched the 8088 processor, a Chinese PC maker has launched a brand new mini-laptop sporting the 4.77 MHz processor, along with support for an optional 8087 math co-processor. This new “Book 8088 DOS system” is available from AliExpress for $201 and up. And while it won’t run most modern […]
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DevTerm portable terminal is now available with a Raspberry Pi CM4 for $279
The DevTerm is a portable computer terminal with a retro-inspired design featuring an ultra-wide display, a keyboard and trackball, and a modular design that allows the same computer shell to be used with a variety of different processor modules. When the DevTerm first launched in 2021 it was available with a choice of a Raspberry […]
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Lilbits: Remembering the Apple Newton, using a 2003 Windows Mobile PDA in 2022, and exploring one of the earliest builds of Android
3 Comments on Lilbits: Remembering the Apple Newton, using a 2003 Windows Mobile PDA in 2022, and exploring one of the earliest builds of AndroidApparently it’s nostalgia week in the mobile tech world. Ars Technica decided to take a trip down memory lane by remembering the Apple Newton 30 years after Apple announced its first handheld. While the Newton was widely considered a flop, maybe it was just ahead of time. We certainly now live in a world where […]
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TheC64 is coming in December 2019 (A full-sized Commodore 64 clone)
For the past few years we’ve been inundated with a slew of mini retro consoles like the NES Classic Edition, Sony PlayStation Classic, Sega Genesis Mini, and the recently-announced TurboGrafx-16 Mini. But not all classic game systems were consoles… so last year a company called Retro Games Ltd launched TheC64 Mini for folks looking to […]
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You can use a floppy disk drive with an Android phone (if you really want to)
Some Android phones have microSD card slots, others don’t. But most have USB ports (with maybe one notable exception). That means you can plug in a USB flash drive if you can find one with a phone-sized connector, or if you use a USB OTG adapter. But what if you want to go old school? […]
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ELLO 2M is a DIY portable 128K computer aimed at education/hacking (crowdfunding)
Want to learn how to program the same way people did three or four decades ago, but don’t want to hunt down an ancient PC? The ELLO 2M is a DIY computer kit with a keyboard, 7 inch touchscreen display, and an 1156-hole electronics protoyping space. The system is designed to run a version of the […]