Pocket 386 is a mini laptop for retro computing with support for DOS and Windows 95
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This is pretty late, they’ve been out for months. The most recent addition is the Pocket 8086, waiting on mine to get delivered.

It probably doesnt matter to most of you but it has an 8 bit ISA add-on board, meaning its an easy way to test era appropriate components such as Audio and video cards. Great for people more interested in vintage hardware than software.

It’s cool laptop that inspired today’s small laptop. Nowadays you can buy something like that with powerful spec & smaller form

@mPony@lemmy.world
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Much respect for the clever name of the company. I hope younger generations still know about Gulliver’s Travels

@jordanlund@lemmy.world
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Seems like they missed a trick… Pocket Pentium. :)

@555@lemmy.world
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While cute, it would be false advertising for a 386.

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If the point of this thing is to bring back the best of mid-90’s PCs in a compact package, they should have picked the top consumer CPU of the era.

@555@lemmy.world
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They should have used a raspberry pi and some emulators in that adorable little case.

@deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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Gonna disagree with you there. If the mission is to run 1990s apps, we need a 32bit x86 CPU.

@555@lemmy.world
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I have windows 3.1 running in an emulator faster than that eras hardware could ever dream. So, gonna have to double disagree.

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If someone wanted emulation, wouldn’t they have bought one of the many other tiny laptops that have been on the market for years?

I think the point of this is to run natively on vintage hardware.

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