If the system has a nic (unlikely) you could use ftp to transfer the files to a remote host. If it has a dialup modem, you could pick up a null modem cable and do the same thing point to point.
Another option is using your com port with a crossover and hyperterminal - https://technet.microsoft.com/...
The Raspberry Pi project seems to be a good fit for this provided you can source the monitor/keyboard somewhere cheaply or already have one. The non-networked version (model A) is $25 and is probably perfect for this, unfortunately that is not out yet (I believe). The version B which has networking and is ~$35 would probably suit you very well in its stead. Throw a linux distro on there like Debian or Arch and you have yourself a great little machine that uses almost no power that you could teach typing. The only high power device at that point would be the monitor. You could probably get a line display and figure out how to get that working with the raspberry pi to resolve that as well.
green on black is certainly the way to go with terminals. It is easy to see and seems to reduce both eye-strain and to me, has a certain calming effect.
I've run LAN parties (up to 70 people) for about two and a half years and have observed that since WoW has come out people have bought it and played it incessantly decreasing the ammount other games are played many times over. I have observed that many people stopped buying new games but still play WoW and come to the party only to play that. When I ask them why they don't buy other games, there are mainly two answers. One is that they are poor (this is at a university) and can only afford one game at a time (with a subscription, they would buy normal games w/o subscriptions at month to three month intervals usually picking the most popular game at the time), and since many people there are playing WoW they have that as their chosen game and buy that. The other answer is usually that there are many times no good games coming out, you sometimes have a gem that comes out that people love, such as HL2, WC3(even though old, still bought and played a lot), FEAR, and a variety of others. The same thing that this article says about WoW could also be said about things such as Half-Life 2, aside from the obvious issue of many games coming out that were once free now you have to pay for, and episodic HL2 which you have to pay for, making it a sort of money hole, HL2 is a very diverse game. It allows many games to be built on top of it, allowing you to buy one game and get many, this could be drawn as bein a similar problem to the gaming industry for people whom buy very few games. They get sucked into one game and dont move to others, however this still provides some diversity in that it is not actually only one game and therefore is not the monolith that WoW is, it is just a very good competitor making it hard for others in a flooded market to compete.
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If the system has a nic (unlikely) you could use ftp to transfer the files to a remote host. If it has a dialup modem, you could pick up a null modem cable and do the same thing point to point. Another option is using your com port with a crossover and hyperterminal - https://technet.microsoft.com/...
The Raspberry Pi project seems to be a good fit for this provided you can source the monitor/keyboard somewhere cheaply or already have one. The non-networked version (model A) is $25 and is probably perfect for this, unfortunately that is not out yet (I believe). The version B which has networking and is ~$35 would probably suit you very well in its stead. Throw a linux distro on there like Debian or Arch and you have yourself a great little machine that uses almost no power that you could teach typing. The only high power device at that point would be the monitor. You could probably get a line display and figure out how to get that working with the raspberry pi to resolve that as well.
Thanks for the years of great news and a great site! Good luck on your future adventures, you will be missed!
It was only a matter of time before this happened. The person who is receiving the bitcoins should probably watch out for this : http://slashdot.org/story/11/07/25/1239210/Bitcoin-Is-Not-Anonymous
green on black is certainly the way to go with terminals. It is easy to see and seems to reduce both eye-strain and to me, has a certain calming effect.
I've run LAN parties (up to 70 people) for about two and a half years and have observed that since WoW has come out people have bought it and played it incessantly decreasing the ammount other games are played many times over. I have observed that many people stopped buying new games but still play WoW and come to the party only to play that. When I ask them why they don't buy other games, there are mainly two answers. One is that they are poor (this is at a university) and can only afford one game at a time (with a subscription, they would buy normal games w/o subscriptions at month to three month intervals usually picking the most popular game at the time), and since many people there are playing WoW they have that as their chosen game and buy that. The other answer is usually that there are many times no good games coming out, you sometimes have a gem that comes out that people love, such as HL2, WC3(even though old, still bought and played a lot), FEAR, and a variety of others. The same thing that this article says about WoW could also be said about things such as Half-Life 2, aside from the obvious issue of many games coming out that were once free now you have to pay for, and episodic HL2 which you have to pay for, making it a sort of money hole, HL2 is a very diverse game. It allows many games to be built on top of it, allowing you to buy one game and get many, this could be drawn as bein a similar problem to the gaming industry for people whom buy very few games. They get sucked into one game and dont move to others, however this still provides some diversity in that it is not actually only one game and therefore is not the monolith that WoW is, it is just a very good competitor making it hard for others in a flooded market to compete.