"To X or not to X, that is the question" (also, Groovix PC)

From: Scotty Fitzgerald (sfitz007_at_bestweb.net)
Date: 12/17/04

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    Still ruminating on my desire for a second terminal.

    I have three options as I see it,

    Drop extra mouse, keyboard, and screen into my box, and run them
    with X. Did not think of this until I read the article on the
    new Groovix PC. (I'd like to know how they can have multiple
    unique pairs of speakers though.)

    Buy an X Term

    Buy a Serial Term

    A fourth option would have been to revamp an old PC and network
    up. I would rather drop extra video card and mouse and keyboard
    on the same box. I figure, why network if you can be on the same
    Box?

    At any rate, revamping an old PC shell would include the cost
    of possibly replacing the power supply, and hassling with
    memory chips and digging up an old disk (those old Maxtor disks
    make excellent bookends, don't they? Real cyberpunk Je Nes Se
    Quis (sp?)) This means cost and hassle.

    I am very heavily leaning toward an old serial terminal. A
    used one on Ebay is only about US$20, and a refurbished is
    $200. I figure all the other options require me to buy a new
    screen at much more. I don't like the idea of buying a CRT
    used on EBAY.

    Since my real need is just to check email news and possibly some
    simple web, I think the serial term is the way to go even though
    it is obsolete technology. What twists my noodle is, will I want
    X down the road? If I move to my girls, there is no way I am
    going to interest her and her nieces to use serial aplications.
    But it is kind of like gazing into a crystal ball.

    Any thoughts?! 

    ---
Scotty
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