Home News Computing Toshiba T3200SX (Image credit: PCBitz) A developer has managed to turn a laptop from 1989 into a cryptocurrency mining machine, but it won’t be making anyone rich any time soon.The computer in question is the once cutting-edge Toshiba T3200SX, which is powered by a 16MHz Intel 386SX processor and runs on MS-DOS. When it first hit the market, the T3200SX was available at the low, low price of $6,299 (or $13,896 in today’s money).The architect of the mining project, Dmitrii Eliuseev, has published a blog post setting out his process, which included programming his own mining software for MS-DOS (now available on GitHub) and calculating potential earnings over time.Retro crypto mining rigTransforming unlikely hardware into Bitcoin mining machines has become something of a tradition in recent years; smartphones, Raspberry Pis and even Teslas have been used to mine cryptocurrency. Thanks to Eliuseev, the Toshiba T… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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This laptop from 1989 can mine Bitcoin, but it definitely won’t make you rich
