Re: Older Equiptment

["Hans Sittler" <babar@earthlink.net>]

Michael Hamblin wrote: 

> Basically what you've got here is a pretty awesome development, at least
> the way I look at it. 
...
> A school has gotten hand-me down 286s with networking functionality, but
> are having trouble finding uses for them. One possible solution: set the
> 286s up as terminals that connect to one or more Linux servers where a
> richers set of programs are available.
 
> A school with a large number of relic Apple II's would like to allow
> students to do email but cannot purchase new equiptment. A possible
> solution: Set up the Apple's to do serial connections to bridges or
> directly to a Linux box as terminasls.

This is pretty much my situation;  I have an offer of 15 Apple IIs 
from a local high school;  the possibility of using them as terminals 
to one reasonably fast Linux server is intriguing. 
>
Hans Sittler