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Re: What are you working on?

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:20:36 +0200, sizeofcat <sizeofcat@riseup.net> wrote:
>Personal projects? Forks nobody else bothers to use? What are you working on?
>
Just picked up a really wierd old portable from a friend.  Been cleaning it up
and trying to reseach it.  It has no real branding on it so that's a bit of a
challenge.

No battery, an 80x25 folding LCD screen, internal hard drive, single 5.25 inch
floppy.  I'd say it's from '85 or '86.  I finally got to running the Landmark
benchtesting utility on it, to find it has an 80186 CPU!

A web search for 186 based portables, lead me to the Olimarck Top 25,
manufactured by International Quartz Ltd.  I think it was OEM'ed as a few
different things.

Anyway, it's not fast, but I've never had a 186 based computer before, and it's
super fun to play around with.   One of the screen hinges is cracked, and there
isn't enough material/clearance to epoxy it back together, so I'm going to have
to try and 3D print a new part at some point.





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