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Old May 19, 2013 | 6:13 pm
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Originally Posted by nkedel
Very cool ... just after Linux was starting to come in and the Unix PC and 3b2 were technically "obsolete" and they were still enough to turn some heads.
Coupled with a good old Hayes external dial-up modem (young ones don't have a clue on those) via serial, run terminal emulation and it can talk to the remote host - surely, why not.

Looked like an old XT style keyboard before the AT/PS2 keyboards became defacto standard - got a few KB adapters sitting in the junk bin for spare parts.

Our office had Wang PCs (AT/8086's) that had 3270 cards. All of these ran without a mouse ...
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