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The same company appears responsible for the sold-out ' Hand386' retro computer, a handheld system with a much more capable Intel 386 SX inside.

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A visible boot screen in one of the photos pointed us to, which lists the Book 8088 and other retro PC projects, but no information not already provided in the AliExpress listing. The images are attributed to Xinrui Technology, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer that mostly seems to make cheap PC accessories and AV equipment but whose (very old) site doesn't mention the Book 8088. There are reasons to be skeptical of the Book 8088, and a bit of digging has turned up very little on whatever company is making these things. You can run very early Windows versions on it, up to version 3.0 but, according to retro-tech YouTube, it seems like a bad time. That slow speed and low memory limit means it's best suited to MS-DOS, with its text-based interface and general lack of multitasking support. Intel's 8088 was a cut-down version of the original 8086 with an 8-bit data bus in the Book 8088 and the IBM PC, it runs at a clock speed of 4.77 MHz. A few more modern amenities make it nicer to use than a 40-year-old desktop, like a 640×200 16-color LCD screen, and built-in interfaces that allow USB accessories and CompactFlash cards to interface with the ancient components (a 512MB CompactFlash card serves as the system's hard drive). The ' Book 8088' laptop PC combines modern components with an Intel 8088 processor and 640KB (yes, that's kilobytes) of memory. Or you could roll the dice on this new oddball laptop on AliExpress. If you want to experience what using an old IBM PC was like, you could drop a few hundred dollars on a used one on eBay.

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Originally released in August 1981, this computer became so popular and long-lived that competitors reverse-engineered its BIOS so that their computers could use the same software and peripherals, a practice that eventually resulted in a de facto standard whose descendants we still use today. All modern Intel and AMD PCs can trace their roots to a single system: the IBM Personal Computer.

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