The trouble is, unless you still have a vintage machine, it's
ridiculously hard to find a good one these days, at least if you want
one where the mainboard hasn't been half-eaten by a leaking battery.
And even then, at 20 years of age they are often prone to hardware
conking out.
On Tue, 7 Jan 202
The mini-boxes are kind of expensive for what you're getting, but might be
worth it for some people. They are physically pretty small, which is nice, but
don't have built-in peripherals like floppy drives, serial/parallel ports,
CD-ROMs, or slots to plug things in. The I/O they do have is prob
Part of me really wants one of these. I like running on real hardware
for the experience, even though a '486 will be slow compared to a
virtual machine today.
What's holding me back is I bought a Pocket386 ('386-SX40) laptop that
I bought earlier in 2024, and that works really well for running
Fre
Hi,
The trouble is, unless you still have a vintage machine, it's
ridiculously hard to find a good one these days, at least if you want
one where the mainboard hasn't been half-eaten by a leaking battery.
And even then, at 20 years of age they are often prone to hardware
conking out.
This is t
Well, both models (DX and EX) show "not in stock".
Beside that, I faintly remember that there were issues with the Vortex
CPU and Intel x86 compatibility...
Looks like the Pixel x86 Mini (Vortex86EX) is in stock right now:
https://pixelx86.com/product/pixel-mini
Now I'm really tempted to get
Why not opt for a thin client instead? I bought a HP t5000 series one
for less than 7 euros just recently :).
400MHz (Via Eden 4000), 128MB RAM, 32M flash, LPT and COM ports, and
apparently even a soundcard.
The ParkyTowers site deserves to be reminded here, as the author has,
among others, listed
