Thin Clients

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:29:13AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The biggest issues I see with dumb serial terminals are running
> cables if they're not already present and/or support for
> reasonable serial multi-port boards on current operating systems.

You can fit a serviceable serial circuit down a TIA 568B wire run;
terminal servers are cheap, used.

> I have a stack of old Specialix hardware in my back room, but no
> current hardware supports ISA boards today.

Indeed.

Thank ghod we shifted from Intelliport to Intelliserver early.

Buy used Pentium-2 motherboards, and use Linux to build terminal
servers out of them.

Cheers,
-- jra
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