L. V. Lammert wrote:
At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote:
Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook
up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs
There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can
get bus-powered ones up to around 8 DB9
*OR* you can save yourself a ton of heacaches and get a 'Terminal
Server' (as many ports as you wish) at the surplus store for
$10-$50US. Route it's traffic through an OBSD machine with - problem
solved.
In case memory is short, in the old days users HAD actual ASCII
terminals ON their desk to do work <g>, which got done quickly &
efficiently! None of this network stuff, virii, spam, Internet
Exploder, or other Windoze attack-atracting tools.
Lee
I still like keeping machine count and power usage to a minimum. I am
close to my cabinet's power allotment and if I install some older,
power-hungry terminal server I will have to add another circuit. That
$25 terminal server could wind up causing me an additional $100/month
for the extra power circuit. Acquisition costs are only a small
fraction of overall operating costs.
/Jason
