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by gattilorenz 1798 days ago
I'm currently playing with laptops of various vintage, mostly 386/486/P1 era. I do minimal hardware modifications (e.g. replace broken floppy drives with Gotek and hard disks with CF cards), and mostly software "challenges" (e.g. port Doom to Xenix, triple-boot Win95, Dos and SCO Unix on an LBA formatted disk,. .. ). In general, I find less common/obscure OSes interesting, more than the hardware per se.

Laptops can be annoying due to the nonstandard parts and limited expansion capabilities (save for PCMCIA cards), but they are very compact and self-contained and I'm currently living in a small house.