[TriLUG] Dumb Terminals?

[John Franklin]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:04:12PM -0400, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> Hating to see computers go to waste, I have a way possibly to buy (really 
> cheap) old used computers whose future is to be melted down/recycled the 
> hard way (IMHO). There are basically two types of computers I may be able 
> to pick up - those below 233Mhz and 233Mhz and above. Obviously the second 
> group might cost a little more money than the others, so if the lower end 
> computers would work fine, then it would be beneficial to go with them. 
> Some of the computers, especially the older ones, would need some elbow 
> grease to clean (physically blowing the dust out and wiping off whatever 
> these people spilled on the cases years ago) but they are relatively good 
> computers - I think.

Just to make sure... you're looking for dumb terminals in the text-only 
sense, right?  The machines below 233MHz will certainly be up to snuff 
for text-only, but maybe not as an X Terminal (depending on the machines.)

jf
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