{"id":55911,"date":"2022-01-14T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55911"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:51:59","slug":"1989-laptop-put-to-the-test-in-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/1989-laptop-put-to-the-test-in-bitcoin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"1989 Laptop Put to the Test in Bitcoin Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An enthusiast <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.devgenius.io\/bitcoin-mining-using-the-ms-dos-laptop-7720b884c85c\">wrote<\/a> software to mine Bitcoin on an old Toshiba T3200SX laptop running MS-DOS.<\/p>\n<p>In C++, he wrote code to compute a custom Bitcoin block to test the device&#8217;s ability to process it.<\/p>\n<p>The 1989-era computer is powered by an Intel 80386 CPU running at 16 MHz. During testing, the Toshiba T3200SX achieved a mining hash rate of 15 H\/s with a power draw of about 39 W.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/9J4lUDIhvcjGYBrxS_hAZY6Dy3cvQkT243unxaGAbB3DCl6mFPA8nowGSRF1jWJECkK3muTG7KpXoje8HXTv9PTt-BVkYeubkN4wa8o6_my7av0P5gZcOh-FC1gHDIRkduerZHoB\" alt=\"1989 laptop tested in Bitcoin mining\"\/><figcaption>Data: blog.devgenius.io.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The developer claims that with these specs, mining the equivalent of $1 would take 584 million years. By comparison, the Raspberry Pi 4&#8217;s performance reaches up to 200,000 H\/s.<\/p>\n<p>He also tested the algorithm on a Toshiba T1100 Plus from 1986. The device, based on an 8086 CPU at 7.1 MHz, showed a hash rate of 3.6 H\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The mining programs for MS-DOS-era laptops were published by the enthusiast on his GitHub account.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in March 2021, miners used a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/game-boy-handheld-console-taught-to-mine-bitcoin\">Game Boy<\/a> to mine the first cryptocurrency. The system delivered a hash rate of 0.8 H\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enthusiast wrote software to mine Bitcoin on an old Toshiba T3200SX laptop running MS-DOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1626],"class_list":["post-55911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-experiment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"54","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55913,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55911\/revisions\/55913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}