if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

From: Neil Cherry <ncherry_at_home.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 06:58:22 2001

Doc wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> > A firewall with a video card? Gotta love them PCs. ;)
>
> Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install option, and not
> all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more
> relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the geeks, knows
> what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal.

I prefer a terminal server. I picked up a Cisco ASM for $50 for o100 ports
(64 ports in decimal ;-).

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