Splitting a PC

At my last job, about 60 users in the office each had a device called a Win-Terminal. It was a small little grey box which had a bit of ram in it and basic VGA capability. You plugged your keyboard/monitor/mouse into it and then connected it to the network. All the processing was done on 4 dual-cpu servers handling 10-20 users each. They were only PIII servers I think so not very powerful at all but the system worked reasonably well. Terminal services was used to achieve this setup.

The company had some really expensive software and this setup allowed them to get around having to buy one licence per machine because only the server needed a licence.

There were also X-Terminals running in a similar setup but unix based.
 
Thanks for all the replies, I have convinced my boss to buy another cheapo dell, either new or to save even more cash second hand.

Cheers

Karl
 
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Its hard trying to make the cheapest system that will run internet explorer when trying to accomodate a tft, windows , keyboard and mouse all from overclockers, can any1 else do cheaper?
 
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