On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 17:49 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:20 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > a similar setup in Beckley WV, using 16 XT's and 386's as dumb > > terminals. Someone donated two Dickens Terminal Servers and I just > > ran DOS on those machines and Qterm for text logins at 9600 baud. > > People could use Pine and email to the internet just fine or play MUD. > > Not too many years ago I scored a collection of XTs, 286s, and a 386 > from the local high school that was just going to dump them. I sorted > out what worked, and a local disability group took them for their blind > members to log onto their BBS to chat, do mail, and play games. Even > what most would consider to be obselete, often has a use to someone. > > The lady who took them off my hands was confined to a wheelchair, barely > able to speak or do anything physical, but you'd never guess that when > you chatted to her on-line. Computers to her, were a liberating > experience. Just for a change, she got treated the same as everyone > else. That's what these things are for, my friend. That to me is the whole ball of wax, to actually do useful things for the advancement of the individual. You may be ripe for Croquet! It's similar to "SecondLife" (they mutually cooperate with code devel) Croquet being the actual tools to develop Virtual Worlds. The University of Wisconsin is responsible for the repository. It does have memory, cpu and gpu requirements above that of cast off computers though. But someone who is wheelchair confined may be able to get a larger machine through the efforts of friends, church, community initiatives. I'd like to see more linux users involved in it's direction and development though. I can use the help!! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
