1. Dumb terminals aren't networked devices; they are serial devices and
connect over serial ports (or through modems, of course). You'll need a
working serial port (with its own IRQ) on your Linux host for each terminal,
with an appropriate entry in inittab.
2. Rather than finding actual terminals, you might find it easier to
scrounge up some '286 or older PCs (or old Macs, I suppose; even Apple IIe's
would work) and run DOS with a terminal emulator like telix or procomm. If
you can find some antique laptops, they are convenient for this purpose --
you don't even need a hard disk to run these old apps.
3. Or, if you have old 386s around, you can probably get them to run as X
terminals (see http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html;
there's a better site in Canada, but I can't find the URL right now). You
might even be able to connect them to your Linux host serially, running ppp
(I've done this experimentally, but only for command-line stuff, not X, and
not for anything I've actually relied on to get work done).
At 12:18 AM 7/6/99 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>i really need some help on this one: i need to add 3 dumb terminals to my
>computer (vt102 or something like that - as long as it works :).
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