You Can Still Use an MS-DOS Laptop in 2023

<h2>Let’s take a challenge and imagine that you have this machine from 1988.</h2> <p>Which by the way, had a $1,999 price — the value equivalent to $4,989 today. Can we do something useful on this laptop nowadays? Let’s figure it out.</p> <h1>Specs</h1> <p>At the end of the 80s, the typical personal computer was looking like this:</p> <p>It was a nice machine but it was absolutely far from “portable”. If you wanted something really portable in the 80s — you had to be on the cutting edge of the tech of that time, it was something that most people were not able to afford. Actually, switching from a “desktop” to a “laptop” gives you a new dimension of <em>freedom</em>, and this is what people were ready to pay for. I can’t even think of a suitable analogy for what kind of modern gadget can cost about $5K nowadays. Today, even switching from a $500 to a $5000 laptop will probably not give you a similar increase in productivity at all. So, it was a unique experience, and it is interesting and challenging to recreate it.</p> <p><a href="https://debugger.medium.com/you-can-still-use-an-ms-dos-laptop-in-2021-d43fa10a8211">Click Here</a></p>