[ale] [somewhat OT] Fat thin client

[Greg]

You can get used nics for $5.00 in the bargain bin at Microseconds on
Roswell, just outside the Perimeter.  Get 2 and a crossover cable and voilà ,
instant network.  They also have handfuls of memory ( I got several megs for
free one day) for I think about $1.00 per stick.  500 MB hard drives were
also in said $5.00 bargain bin.  There are also several other places on
Jimmy Carter & here in Marietta that sell stuff for bargain basement prices.

I don't know of any system that can fit on a 200 mb disk (Windows 3.1 ?),
Unless of course you put a system on a CD and boot from it.  That might
work.

Of course if you are not in Atlanta, just disregard the references to
Microseconds et al.

Hope this helps,

Greg Canter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jordi S. Bunster [mailto:j.bunster at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] [somewhat OT] Fat thin client
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>
> Problem: My mother wants email, and does not want to mess neither with
> my brother's machine neither with my workstation, because we're always
> using them.
>
> I have some spare hardware here at home. P75, 16 or 32 megs, 200 mb
> harddisk. The problem is, I don't want to make it an X-Terminal to my
> workstation, because I don't have that much horsepower to serve her
> graphical applications and my Java development (it is already painful
> to develop Java2 on a P200 with 64 megs of ram). I'm also being the NAT
> router to the house. No way.
>
> What I wanted was a thin standalone machine, at least with the ability
> to run a decent graphical web-broswer. Decent enough for her to access a
> web-based mail client from my workstation, and thus read her alredy
> fecthmailed messages.
>
> I thought about FreeDOS and this Arachne graphical browser. Though its
> license seems a bit odd.
>
> Any suggestions? By the way, buying a NIC is out of question. With that
> money, I can buy her a computer faster than mine.
>
> -- Jsb
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