Have a look at parkytowers and consider a thin client of pre-Windows 7
or Windows XP vintage.  They're usually cheap and plentiful on ebay
and the like.

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:19 AM Frantisek Rysanek
<frantisek.rysa...@post.cz> wrote:
>
> ...oops, I have a small typo correction:
>
> > Note that Vortex86, especially in the DX2 generation, is pretty close
> > to machines of the 486 / Pentium era.
> >
> actually I meant the Vortex86DX, not the DX2.
> (The DX2 is actually moving away slightly from the old-skool bare
> metal.)
>
> Frank
>
> > It's got a proper, full-blown
> > ISA bus straight from the SoC, and also 32bit / 33MHz PCI.
> > The DX-based boards by ICOP come with an XGI Z9s graphics chip that
> > has something like 32 MB of dedicated Video DRAM and is accompanied
> > by a pretty good VESA BIOS, where good = decent compatibility with
> > DOS-era software. It can run Windows up to XP, although for XP the
> > onboard 512 MB of RAM is already hardly sufficient. Graphics drivers
> > are available for the Windows 9x and NT.
> ...
>
>
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