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Rack Mount Solution for Desktop PCs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-more-hauling-pcs-back-to-the-shop dept.

kilroy666 writes "ComputerWorld has an executive technology brief on a company called ClearCUBE. This company created a system to rack mount the guts of a PC and allow the monitor/keyboard to be up to 200m away. With add-ons and network storage, the PC's are swappable in case of a failure." Having spent several years as a tech fixing PCs, I have to say that this concept seems like it could be really awesome. Of course, I say awesome for every except me. I want my PC on my desk dammit.

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  2. Just need the right terminal by DG · · Score: 4

    I've always considered our family Linux machine as being our "information furnace" - the same way the house furnace provides heating services, the computer is the "information furnace"

    The problem is the terminals. What I want is:

    - a decent sized screen (1024X768 in 17") that doesn't take up much space (so prolly LCD)
    - a built-in USB hub, with jacks for keyboard, trackball, and joystick, plus one more for local devices (camera, scanner, printer, or whatever)
    - a built-in CDRW drive
    - built-in speakers, with audio in and out jacks
    - ONE, count 'em, ONE power cord
    - ONE, count 'em, ONE wire that routes to the main server
    - CHEAP - like about $300 for the whole shebang.

    The terminal would be a X real terminal, with no computing power to speak of locally, aside from whatever hardware is needed to make X work. No local hard drive. Just plug it in, and I have access to my main server (I suppose the CDRW would be NFS mounted)

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