Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 2, 2023

So my roommate bought that weird Hand386 portable PC that popped up on aliexpress. Let's tear it down (nondestructively for once, since I'm borrowing it).

#hand386 #teardown

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 2, 2023
first off, lemme get the spoilers out of the way: It's real, it runs DOS/Windows 95, and it can run Doom (badly) and VGAPride.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 2, 2023

It's easy to open (this image came out blurry, but I'm just using it for navgiation)

We've got two terminal connectors on the left, plus a 3.5mm audio jack. The right has a USB port and a barrel jack power connector.

Show threadI love this, so IJun 3, 2023
@foone but but the 386 didn’t have USB?!
Show threadMichael Gurski
@jpm @foone I don't think there was anything specifically preventing the 386 from having USB aside from USB showing up well past the 386's prime. I don't think my 486 or even PII had USB, but 486 PC-104 dev boards a few years later that I worked with did.
Jun 3, 2023 at 1:01amWeb
Show threadMr LeastJun 3, 2023
@emag @jpm @foone USB showed up around the Pentium Pro/AMD K6 era. I had it on my board at the time (header only) and my current PII machine has two ports on the back.