[TriLUG] Dumb Terminals?

[H Brett Bolen]

I used my trs80 as a dumb terminal ( so I didn't have to cary
punch cards).

z80 running at .977 Mhz.  16 k ram ( but 4k ram probably would have
worked fine also).

The terminal program was running on an interpreted basic.

dumb enough?

b

Jason Tower wrote:
> check out www.ltsp.org and www.k12ltsp.org.  i've set this up few times
> and it works great.  the thin clients need only a floppy drive, 16MB or so
> of ram, and a nic.  no hard drive or cdrom is needed.  or you can use a
> special nic with a bootrom built in and dump the floppy too.  they are
> totally stateless, so if one conks out just toss it and drop in a
> replacement.  if you have a large number of users all of whom have only
> basic computing needs, this is a fantastic way to go.
> jason
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure I'm even going to be asking this question right, so cut me
>> some slack please :)
>>
>>In one of the articles past along to the group (I believe from Josep)
>>about  schools switching to Linux, it was mentioned that a server is
>>setup and  then dumb terminals are used in the computer labs. What
>>exactly is needed  inside the computer for a dumb terminal? Like how
>>much memory? hard drive?  network card? etc. I'm assuming that the
>>computer wouldn't need a floppy or  cd-rom either.
>>
>>Any info is greatly appreciated. Just point me in the right direction
>>:) TIA!
>>Lisa B.
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