Dumb terminals are the future for consumer computing. So says the British government, which is launching an environmental taskforce to encourage people to switch. Powered by high-speed internet, one's ...

[Andrew Curtin] tipped us off to another excellent resurrected vintage one piece ADM-3A dumb terminal. [Andrew] not only resurrected this sexy machine by breathing life into her once more after 37 ...

With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in ...

Most smart home products are designed to be controlled from a mobile device, which makes sense since that’s what the average consumer spends most of their day poking around on these days. But you aren ...

The project shows how an 8-bit ATmega128 microcontroller was used to run a dumb terminal along with an LCD screen and a keyboard. An RS232 is being used by this simple serial terminal in order for a ...

Basically, I'm looking to build a system for someone who would really benefit from a dumb terminal type of setup. This person wants a smooth, fast machine for his basic office work, nothing heavy (e.g ...

Once upon a time no one had computers on their desks, but some researchers had terminals in their offices that let them remotely access a big computer somewhere else. Now the idea of terminal ...

Processing performed in one computer or in a cluster of coupled computers in a single location. Access to the computer is via "dumb terminals," which send only input and receive output or "smart ...

Having covered the startup world since the days when fast dial-up Internet was considered pretty cutting edge, I’ve observed that visions of technological progress fall into two common categories: ...