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need ideas
at work today, I liberated a "dumb terminal" from the trash heap. in a small case about the size of a laptop but thicker, this thing has:
-a mini mobo
-a powersupply (with fan)
-a cdrom drive (slim type like a laptop would have)
-a case fan
-a cpu fan (but I cant tell what kind of cpu it has, since the heatsink (with fan) is glued on top of it)
-i/o connections for: audio/video (rca jacks), mouse and keyboard, modem and fax, ethernet, and some other jack that Im guessing would be firewire (looks sorta like a USB, but is definitely NOT a USB port), and of course the video out to monitor.
-and what appears to be an itty bitty 4mb ram chip.
but NO hard drive
it is one of about a dozen NIC (New Internet Computer) units that allowed different parts of the plant to connect to the company network.
it was being scrapped because of a change in company structure eliminated the department of the plant where it was used. so far as I know, everything should still work (hell the thing is less than a year old).
so, what I was wondering is, besides stripping it for parts (of which only the fans, power supply and cdrom drive would be of any use to me) what can I use this for?
I was thinking of setting it up as my internet browser by networking it off my pc.
anyone got a better idea, or some suggestions as to where to find info on how best to implement my idea?
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