• expired

Pocket 386 (w/ Recycled 386SX40 CPU) Works with DOS/Win 3.1/Win95 US$183.93 (~AU$285.79) Shipped @ iklestar AliExpress

1231
Pocket 386 (w/ Recycled 386SX40 CPU) Works with DOS/Win 3.1/Win95 US$183.93 (~AU$285.79) Shipped @ iklestar AliExpress
Go to Deal
Cashback
guidedlight on 22/06/2024 - 19:08 aliexpress.com (4119 clicks)
Last edited 23/06/2024 - 09:29
SS18

Edit: Price appears to have increased. I’ll expire this deal

On sale is the Pocket 386 pocket computer.

Uses a reclaimed/recycled 386SX40 CPU + 8Mb DRAM + Yamaha OPL3 Sound + VGA graphics + IPS screen (800x480px either 16:9 or 4:3) + USB + Compact Flash Storage (IDE mode). Includes adapters for PS/2, VGA, and Parallel Ports.

Also has pinouts for ISA 16-bit & ISA 8-bit.

It can run DOS, Windows 3.11, and Windows 95. Although note that this computer is below the Windows 95 minimum specifications, so it will be very slow and barely usable.

Note: The sound card is based on the Yamaha OLP3 chip, which is compatible with Adlib sound output but not Sound Blaster.

It has built-in mouse support. But reviews suggest this is not very usable, so a PS2 mouse is recommended.

AU price is inclusive of GST + Coupon + 3% bank fee + Mastercard Exchange Rate

Video review of this computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVgITS8aLzc

—

Original Coupon Deal

Computing Computer Handheld Computer Retro Gaming

Related Stores

AliExpress
AliExpress
Marketplace
iklestar CNCMAX Official Store
iklestar CNCMAX Official Store

Comments

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 22/06/2024 - 20:23
        +10

        Anything to give myself another 7-21 business days of will to live.

        • Mikeer on 22/06/2024 - 21:50
          +3

          AliExpress deliveries have been inconveniently too quick lately

      • M00Cow on 22/06/2024 - 20:24
        +1

        people from every generation are addicted to nostalgia. Just look at FB "the current generation won't know what this is…..bwahahaha"

        YouTube is a good, cheap nostalgia shot..But i enjoy find old posts I made in usenet or fidonet about how cool my new sound blaster card is.

      • AustriaBargain on 23/06/2024 - 00:48
        +1

        Yeah the older you get the more nostalgic you get, and the more money you have to spend. This is how things like baseball cards from packs of bubble gum end up costing millions of dollars.

    • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:14

      Just like:
      Polaroid or Tamagotchi or Nokia 5510 or iPhone 1.

      Nostalgia.
      Simple times.

      • easternculture on 22/06/2024 - 20:25

        I still have the original ipad lol

        • Jackson on 23/06/2024 - 08:48

          Did you have to change the battery?

    • cski on 23/06/2024 - 10:31

      why do people play football soccer golf tennis when you can play on a PC?

      why buy CDs DVDS Vinyl when you can stream online?

      why own deck cards when you have windows?

      well because the original is sometimes genuinely not the same thing as having something tangible in your hands

      • Jaduqimon on 23/06/2024 - 10:44

        Yes i understand that but this isnt original.

        there was no "Pocket 386" in the late 80s/90s. yes it has the recycled original chip but the form factor is not…

        • cski on 23/06/2024 - 11:21

          form factor doesn't really have to be the same as long as the signature features are present, very few can fit a full atx system anywhere

          what I would enjoy about something like this is seeing the IPO connectors, the ribbons, the dos prompt. We rarely/never really touch the CPU itself so most wouldn't notice form factors impact on CPU placement..

          I'll never understand why the old man likes that crackle and white noise in the Vinyl's and some of us will never know/explain why typing on a Mechanical keyboard is more enjoyable than a midline soft touch keyboard or glass screen.

          But as long as the product connects by peripherals to a VGA its form factor is still spiritually consistent

  • chaffer on 22/06/2024 - 19:14

    Can i play CS go on this?

    • Mortal Krumpet on 22/06/2024 - 19:33
      +2

      You can play the words CS go.. in Microsoft Office. Is that ok?

    • MasterScythe on 22/06/2024 - 20:03
      +3

      Doom. OneMustFall. Lemmings. Skifree and so many others.

      You dont need to settle for CS Go.

      • perfectlydark on 22/06/2024 - 20:24
        +2

        ah lemmings. now that was a puzzle game that slayed

      • noisymime on 23/06/2024 - 08:11

        People forget just how slow a 386SX was. Even Doom is going to be a bad experience on it. A 386DX was really the lowest spec for a usable Doom game and even then you're going to notice it being slow.

  • vovikdrg on 22/06/2024 - 19:14

    Great present for 🎄

  • CheapandUsed on 22/06/2024 - 19:15
    +14

    I bet a decent amount of medical and manufacturing companies will be ordering these so they don't have to upgrade the control systems that have been running on a 386 for the last ~40 years

    • Chinese on 22/06/2024 - 19:23
      +2

      Banks too.

    • BigBirdy on 22/06/2024 - 21:13

      Not really. If there still are any old systems dependent on a 386, they’d be running on a 386 software emulation, and if they needed hardware from the era, they’re unlikely to be compatible with this device. In fact, a lot of the old hardware has software emulation.

    • AustriaBargain on 23/06/2024 - 00:49
      +4

      I bet Dutton's nuclear power stations will be controlled by this very computer.

  • r0xz on 22/06/2024 - 19:17
    +5

    This or a MBP?

    • brocky2006 on 22/06/2024 - 19:18
      +5

      This is a significant saving from a MBP

    • PainToad on 22/06/2024 - 19:36
      +8

      This has more ram.

      • sirsavesabit on 22/06/2024 - 22:14
        +6

        And it's probably upgradable.

    • Trhrd on 22/06/2024 - 20:13

      If you are not really into the apple ecosystem, then this.

  • fastnet on 22/06/2024 - 19:18

    Thanks, getting one to play Crysis and 4K video streaming.

    • easternculture on 22/06/2024 - 19:19

      Need dialup internet

      • fastnet on 22/06/2024 - 19:23
        +1

        I'll be hotspotting from my GPRS enabled phone instead. No dramas ✌️

        • easternculture on 22/06/2024 - 19:28
          +1

          I still have my Nokia D211 GPRS PCMCIA Modem.

          Got it when I was able to hack GPRS data on Vodafone unactivated sim for close to 2 years in 2003

  • sltsta1 on 22/06/2024 - 19:19
    -1

    is the win95 license legit?

    • ecatsuj on 22/06/2024 - 20:06
      +4

      Win95 would chug hard on this

  • kungfuman on 22/06/2024 - 19:20
    +1

    if only a had a 56k modem i could surf the internet with this thing.

    • foonman on 22/06/2024 - 19:37

      Have you got your AOL CD?

    • chutibuti on 22/06/2024 - 19:41

      Hayes or US Robotics 14.4kbps?

      • Mondorock on 22/06/2024 - 22:03

        When I first joined AOL I had a 2400bps modem. It took me 4 hours to download a postage stamp sized movie trailer (the modem could only transmit about 1MB per hour). This was in 1995.

  • pw2002au on 22/06/2024 - 19:20
    +6

    Sx didn't have the math co-processor from memory so counts me out ;) need the DX version. Fark I'm old..

  • Watanabe1995 on 22/06/2024 - 19:21

    I want 586

    • Mortal Krumpet on 22/06/2024 - 19:34
      +4

      'Pentium'.

      • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:15

        Intel Inside

    • Jackson on 23/06/2024 - 09:14

      I have one, you can have it at the right price. How about 700?

  • Lizard Spock on 22/06/2024 - 19:21
    +6

    It should at least come with a trackball mouse.

  • Fiximol on 22/06/2024 - 19:22
    +2

    That belongs in a museum.

    • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:16
      +1

      We're currently posting inside a museum already.

      • scrimshaw on 22/06/2024 - 22:07

        If I buy this, do I also belong in a dinosaur museum?

        🧓

        • muncan on 23/06/2024 - 09:02

          We are the fossil fuels of the future.

  • Saveyourass on 22/06/2024 - 19:23

    prefect for playing dos games

  • Commodore64 on 22/06/2024 - 19:31
    +1

    For this much money may as well use AO486 on a mister.
    In fact the mister may be obtainable for 99 USD if the open source alternative to the DE10 NANO takes off!

    God, watching windows 95 boot up with the uneven loading bar animation takes me back…
    +1 from Nostalgia

    • cski on 23/06/2024 - 11:36

      I remember the pride of taking the win boot sys files from Windows 98 dumping into my Windows 95c c:\windows directory to replace old
      and the loading bar would change from 0 to done 40% quicker.

      Windows 98 was sold as significantly faster boot times to consumers but also had many new features slowing boot times.
      but all they did was remove a number of checks from the startup like memory count inside that loading Windows 9x screen.

      So, my 95c Frankenstein would boot really fast. to desktop much faster that windows 98 :) since 98 had its own new overhead and

      so 95c was the real best OS.

  • dojomojo on 22/06/2024 - 19:31
    +7

    Leisure Suit Larry anyone?

    • barge-in hunter on 22/06/2024 - 20:43
      +1

      Give Eve apple

    • airforce on 23/06/2024 - 01:26

      Ken sent me

    • dmbminaret on 24/06/2024 - 05:53

      You forgot to remove condom, arrested by police.

  • gruffjaguar on 22/06/2024 - 19:34

    HODL

  • SBOB on 22/06/2024 - 19:36

    Can it play doom?

    • chutibuti on 22/06/2024 - 19:42

      Doom . may be .. but not Doom 3D :)

    • bargaino on 22/06/2024 - 19:53

      Yes, but you should add a Voodoo 3D card for best results.

    • ferguson on 22/06/2024 - 20:34
      +3

      The 386 was for Wolfenstein.

      Doom was more of a 486 thing.

      • flagger on 22/06/2024 - 21:42

        Yes, but you would be playing in a postage stamp window. Finished doom 1 and 2 on a 386 sx 25 in a painfully small window.

  • TeddyBear on 22/06/2024 - 19:37

    This is so cool.

  • Lizard Spock on 22/06/2024 - 19:39

    Does anyone remember the icecream recipes (chocolate, vanilla & strawberry) from the Windows 3.1 tutorial?

  • eggaz on 22/06/2024 - 19:39
    +2

    As nostalgic as this is, and I love it… I can't shell out nearly $300 AUD for this.

    • dmbminaret on 24/06/2024 - 05:55

      The comments are enough for me. I don't need a boat anchor.

  • drfuzzy on 22/06/2024 - 19:41

    I'll try a free sample

  • mrshorty on 22/06/2024 - 19:44

    cd..

  • Captain Hindsight on 22/06/2024 - 19:45
    +2

    Wait a sec, how long have I been asleep. Is my Microbee superceeded?!?😭

    • Jackson on 23/06/2024 - 09:17
      +1

      If you have the green screen, then yes, it's all orange screens now

  • Niko123456 on 22/06/2024 - 19:46
    +2

    10 print "what the hell"
    20 goto 10

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 22/06/2024 - 19:54
    +5

    First Pentax released a new film camera this month… now this. I hope next is revival of pogs.

    • SupeNintendoChalmers on 22/06/2024 - 19:58
      +4

      Remember Alf? He's back in pog form.

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 22/06/2024 - 20:01
        +2

        Milhouse, give him back his soul, I’ve got work tomorrow!

      • lachhelix on 23/06/2024 - 03:31
        +1

        I'm learnding @SuperNintendoChalmers

    • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:17

      I hope next is revival of pogs.

      Tamagotchi
      Tazos
      Yo-Yos

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 22/06/2024 - 20:18
        +2

        Tamagotchi

        Actually they and digimon have already been rebooted .. quite a few times iirc

        • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:18

          Tamagotchi on a keyring ?

          • Lucille Bluth on 22/06/2024 - 20:40

            @whyisave: Not keyring, but you can buy Tamagotchis in Kmart right now.

          • pichxlonco on 22/06/2024 - 20:51

            @whyisave: Yes , there are new colour versions, can connect to the internet and load new tamagotchis in it

    • cannedhams on 23/06/2024 - 08:17

      Half frame, seriously? That's like reviving 45 vinyl records and not 33s
      https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Film-cameras-back…

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 23/06/2024 - 08:27
        +1

        Yeah… it’s an interesting move - let’s see if it pays off for them

      • Grunntt on 23/06/2024 - 09:37

        That's like reviving 45 vinyl records and not 33s

        I need my 78s

  • edfoo on 22/06/2024 - 19:58
    -3

    Too expensive.

    • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:19

      RPi 400 with LED screen accessory is better value.

  • virda on 22/06/2024 - 19:59
    +2

    Only 8MB memory, would have bought if it came with 16MB…

    • guidedlight on 22/06/2024 - 20:04

      lol. This isn’t a MacBook Air.

    • easternculture on 22/06/2024 - 20:05

      That will be an extra $1000 please

  • AngryAlfred on 22/06/2024 - 20:09

    No CD drive, how will I play Mind Maze?

  • EspressoDan on 22/06/2024 - 20:10
    +1

    I know retro is cool, but I can't imagine why anybody would want this or find it in any way useful.

    It's not recycling, it's using eWaste to create more eWaste. Not much plastic in a 386 CPU package. They'd have been better off in the incinerator.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 22/06/2024 - 20:13
      +2

      but I can't imagine why anybody would want this or find it in any way useful.

      Idk about op but maybe a very specific subset of vintage game enthusiasts who for some reason hate dosbox.

      I gave the post an updoot anyway because I’ve spent a heap on emulation consoles … when I could have even used a potato of a pc to do it. So I get it.

      • EspressoDan on 22/06/2024 - 20:23
        +1

        I'm putting 386sx40's in the same box as cassette tapes. If you reminisce about them you weren't there at the time!

  • trueblue on 22/06/2024 - 20:12
    +1

    This is such an extreme ratio of want:need for me

  • fireball99 on 22/06/2024 - 20:13

    missing a gameport to plug my logitech wingman extreme

  • whyisave on 22/06/2024 - 20:18

    QBasic

    Gorilla.bat
    Snake.bat

Login or Join to leave a comment
Login Join