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If you post this on Lemmy, sooner or later someone is going to come along and explain how to get this machine to run Linux.
I am 100% sure that you can install Slackware on this device
Puppy Linux
RTLinux
TinyCore Linux
DSL still a thing?
("Damn Small Linux" or, as I like to write it: "Damn, small Linux!")
They used to brag back in the day that it could run as a live system contained entirely on a standard 1.44 MB floppy! I made such a disk as part of my gonzo IT arsenal around 2007-ish, and it actually came in handy a few times as a rescue disk for PCs that still had a floppy drive.
I can get Windows 11 to run on it.
why?
Some people enjoy suffering.