Got a sweet MSDOS palmtop in the mail from @ajroach42 the other day and after some small hardware fix ups I am settling in with it. This thing is an _astonishing_ device. I can hardly believe it’s real.
This is a fully functional 7MHz 80186 DOS machine, running MSDOS 5.0, with full CGA graphics support. It runs off of two AA batteries. Apparently for weeks. While constantly powering a RAM disk. I have been using this thing fairly heavily since Wednesday, including large serial file transfers that took well over an hour of constant, sustained use. Battery is still at 7/8 full.
@nev planning to use it mainly for coding DOS games on the couch without emulators. It has a PCMCIA slot and there are a few Ethernet cards that are known to work, but in my experience, modern web + DOS don't really work great together
@SpindleyQ @nev Most of the modern web is worthless anyway. Copies of copies of copies of stuff written by low-paid content mill workers.