For those looking for a different form factor, have you considered taking the PCBs out of a Hand386 or Pocket386 and re-homing them? It’d be a seriously easy job, to knock up a new chassis, if you want an SFF PC, and the original ports are already available, including ISA, serial, parallel, PS/2 and VGA.
Plus, you don’t need to hack up vintage gear. At the price the seller is asking, it’s pretty hard to complain. How many other fully-working 386sx portables can you find for $300? And, given manufacturing cost, I don’t really think these things could be much cheaper.
Quality is certainly iffy, and if you compare to any of my vintage Toshiba or Zenith portables, these come up far short. But, they are available in quantity and _vastly_ cheaper than any of these were sold for.
So, IMO, buy or don’t, as you feel appropriate, but the seller seems to have demonstrated pretty good customer service for those whose machines have died or not worked properly, even if they don’t seem to find it necessary to comply with licenses or to “borrow”
@sergey and others’ work.
- Alex