they sell ‘soft start’ hardware to mitigate the initial load but they ain’t cheap

cool project! keep working on it!

the mini from rust is my personal favorite

stacks of diskettes, for every operating system.

would routinely spend hours doing an install only to hit a block and have to reinstall DOS to have modem access to get help on usenet. Then hours of reinstalling to move forward and repeat on another issue.

I really loved it though, it was a massive upgrade over DOS and windows on a 286.