Roughly in the mid-90s I bought at a local surplus store a "Carry 1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS:

Roughly in the mid-90s I bought at a local surplus store a "Carry 1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks https://github.com/ghaerr/elks). I ultimately sold it on Ebay because although it was a beautiful piece of old tech, I was struggling to find more space for other things. Here's one. I had only the central unit, mine had two floppy drives. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/introducing-the-flytech-carry-i-a-book-sized-8088-pc-xt-clone-from-1989.460/ https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/introducing-the-flytech-...