Not an XT clone per se. XT had 8088 CPU, CGA/Hercules display adapter, and a 640...

rubyfan · 2025-04-21T23:06:07 1745276767

I was thinking the same thing when I saw 80186 and the display.

I had an XT in high school and used to hit up the BBSs at 2400 baud watching each character light up on my green monochrome display. It was glorious!

nine_k · 2025-04-22T00:02:24 1745280144

It's some XT++, but it's below the AT specs. That's the material difference.

It also sort of sets the expectations for the sloooow screen.

pinewurst · 2025-04-21T23:04:36 1745276676

This one has ESP32 just running 80186 emulator.

sedatk · 2025-04-21T23:13:14 1745277194

Still, it's not emulating an XT. XT is a very specific PC configuration. Maybe they just wanted to emphasize that it was ancient.

bobmcnamara · 2025-04-22T01:30:36 1745285436

Fully upgraded, my XT had VGA, 1MB including extended memory shenanigans, a sound card, a SCSI card, and Ethernet.

ForOldHack · 2025-04-22T02:45:32 1745289932

I threw in a VGA, and dual 20Mb hard disks. 10Mhz, v20 and 8087 FPU. Dual 6550 serial card, great for modem, over kill for a mouse. A $9 sound card that was AdLib compatible on one chip.

ssl-3 · 2025-04-22T20:35:35 1745354135

Ye olde XT I had topped out with 640KB of RAM, a 20 megabyte and 15 megabyte MFM drives (ST-225, ST-419), two power supplies (the big full-height 15-meg drive needed extra time to spin up), one 16550 serial port card, no mouse, a SoundBlaster 1.5, a clock card, and a 2 megabyte EMS expansion card (with 72 individual DIP chips on it)....with a 10MHz 8088.

Weird times.

Eventually, someone donated a board with an AMD 386SX-33, which I immediately overclocked to 40MHz. Things became a lot different after that.

sedatk · 2025-04-22T07:25:05 1745306705

but no 80186 (not that it matters much, but you started it :)).

bobmcnamara · 2025-04-22T14:47:39 1745333259

It's true. Just an 8087 for companionship.

bobmcnamara · 2025-04-22T14:48:32 1745333312

TIL: NEC V20 was 80188 compatible.