RE: Terminals, like in the 'good old days''. ;-)

[Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada]

Hi, Gustav!

I havenīt seen it "in person", and I do not know if is supported by Linux,
but there is a gadget called "pc buddy" that let you connect an extra
monitor and keyboard to your system and get it working as terminal.

Hope this helps.

-Manuel.


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Gustav Schaffter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: Jueves, 06 de Abril de 2000 06:00 a.m.
> Para: redhat-list (Mailing list)
> Asunto: Terminals, like in the 'good old days''. ;-)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm socializing with this idea of mine...
>
> Long time ago, I worked with mainframes only. Then with what we called
> 'mini-computers'. What was different was (among a few other things :)
> that you didn't have a *Personal* Computer on your desk. You
> shared the
> computer with other users.
>
> Now, having gone through the cycle of working/living with DOS, Win32
> (fortunatley, I haven't yet seen Win00) and OS/2, I'm running Linux on
> most of my computers at home.
>
>
> Linux is (by definition) stable. Makes sense to keep it running.
>
> My wife is, let's say, not _enthusiastic_ about leaving the
> PCs running
> 24/7. Me and my kids would love it though, but since we are
> in minority
> (4) against my wife who is in majority (1), the PCs are all shutdown
> over night. (If you're married, you'll understand. If not, you'll have
> to wait until you see the light. ;-)
>
>
> My idea: (This is the 'good old days' part.)
> I'd like to leave all the PCs running in the basement. 24/7. And have
> only 'dumb terminals' in our sleeping rooms, living rooms,
> hallways and
> in the kitchen. (The bathroom?) Log in using any (free :) terminal and
> you're on the LAN. Maybe doing all the login on one dedicated
> PC having
> NFS mounted hard disks/CD/floppy etc. from other PCs. Maybe even some
> kind of load balancing cluster, all in the basement. No CPU,
> no harddisk
> and (*most* important) no ventilation fans making noise at
> the point of
> login. Except(!) one PC somewhere accessible where I would run two
> (four?) floppies, and a few CD-ROMs. One small boot disk only.
>
>
> Could someone enlighten me about what I would need to create the part
> titled 'dumb terminal' in this solution?
>
> Guess I'd need some monitors, keyboards and mice, but how do they
> communicate (over distance) with the PCs? Do I use some kind
> of modems?
> What kind of modems? Can I use ordinary PC equipment to do this?
> (Looking forward to have multiple video cards under XFree 4.0.) Can I
> serve multiple sound cards from a shared PC to dedicated
> 'login points'?
> Using a multiplexor in the living room to serve multiple
> monitor setups?
>
>
> Any hints, experiences and additional ideas (as always) much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Gustav
>
> P.S. I now. I might find myself sleeping in the basement one day. But
> what wouldn't I do for my Linux boxes? :-)
>
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