It's not exactly what you describe, but I bought the Pocket386 when it came out. Looks like you can still buy them, here:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805356267711.html I bought mine in May last year for a little over $200. It has a 386SX-40 CPU so you get everything that comes with that. It's a bit slow, but runs FreeDOS just fine. The SX means no math coprocessor, and sometimes I'll find a program just blissfully assumes a coprocessor exists and barfs when it isn't there. (Usually that's games, but the Open Watcom C Compiler does it too.) It has headers on the laptop body itself if you want to connect floppy drives, VGA, and other stuff. I use a PS/2 keyboard because the built-in keyboard is too tiny. The BIOS they put in this doesn't support booting from USB (and only supports CHS on the storage card) so the trick to install FreeDOS is to eject the storage card & use a reader in another computer, and install there. I installed using QEMU on my Linux box, for example. Partition the storage then manually transfer system files with *SYS /FORCE:CHS* — then use the advanced mode of the installer (*setup ADV*) to finish the install but not transfer system files. Put the storage back in the Pocket386 and it boots fine. I've tested many monthly releases and the release candidates, and the new FreeDOS 1.4 this way. **The storage card is like 2GB and I partitioned mine as about 1.5GB & 500MB— the 500MB D: is where I keep my documents & other files, and install any third party games & apps I want to use. Then whenever I want to install a new FreeDOS, I just wipe the 1.5GB C: partition and not touch my 500MB D: partition. * On Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 8:34 PM Ron Hudson via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Where do I find a computer with a turbo button, 2 kinds of floppy disks, a > Huge 100mb hard drive (who would even need more) > Maybe based on one of those cutting-edge Pentiums? or a 486 would be ok > too. > > No really, does anyone build new machines meant to run DOS? Perhaps to > replace failed process control machines? >
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