Barely Booting

> Building new hardware for old computers.

Tony Atkins builds open-source hardware for vintage PCs. The current project is NetISA, an ISA expansion card that brings TLS 1.3, WiFi, and modern internet connectivity to IBM PC/XT, AT, 386, and 486 systems.

The goal is simple. A retro PC should be able to reach the current internet without a proxy box, without a serial bottleneck, and without compromising the hardware experience. DOS mail clients talking IMAPS to Gmail. Lynx rendering HTTPS pages from Wikipedia on a 486. git clone over HTTPS from a Windows 3.1 box. None of those used to work. They will.

Follow the build

• YouTube: @BarelyBooting (build videos, progress updates)
• GitHub: tonyuatkins-afk (source, hardware, firmware)
• NetISA project page (status, specs, architecture)

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