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is there no CMOS battery?

If you can wait a bit, I ordered it when it arrives, I will share pictures of the HW if I can as well the components, and my experience. I'm not skilled enough to design and build a portable 386, and I dont want a desktop, so for me if it works its worth to get, risk is if its works :D

yes rebuilding it to another case is something I play with in my mind, want a mechanical keyboard, OLED screen, adding a floppy and ports, change the battery to bigger and pass trough charging, if there would be space reducion to a full 16bis ISA for a true sound card, would be a dream :D

a new Vortex86 would definitely be on my radar, but they are way too expensive, just the SBC is easy 2x the price of this whole how to call it "laptop" I own as well a well preserved 486 DX Compaq laptop, but prefer to keep it off, its Vintage now. So this Chinese variant should work for me, I...

If I recall correctly some of the x86 variants are still made till this day for the industrial SBC

I ordered mine today, exactly what I was waiting for as the evolution of the book8086 - a 386 Sure I would love a more "retro" case with a mechanical keyboard and floppy drive, a bigger 640x480 screen, would be ultimate, but I see the work this must have been to get this done a few questions: 1...

thanks for the manual excerpt, its just not working tried F10 all across, without success

so update, floppy drive as expected not working making it complicated with a bootable disk, what surprised me as well is the BIOS, its so strange, I have no idea how to even enter the bios, none of the usual ways work, any one has experience with how to enter the BIOS?

thanks for all the responses I decided not to impact the historical authenticity and will keep the display as is. Yes I have a VGA, so I could go with a monitor a beamer, have both. It just beats the purpose of the a laptop. Thou I will insert the CF reader. I will try to get the docking...

Hi, I would like to know what PCMCIA options work under DOS on a 486 laptop (Compaq 4 LTE) Will a sound card work? Floppy drive? I'm not interested in network, so what else would make sense to look for?

Hi Everyone, I'm a happy new owner of this almost 30 years old computer, looking forward for a couple of upgrades: 1 - the screen, its the one with the two slides on the right, brightness and contrast, hence it has a lot of ghosting: Is there a possibility to still order a better replacement? Or...