Walter,

What you are describing is a mainframe terminal.  They were nicknamed "dumb"
terminals because they can't do anything without being connected to the
mainframe computer.

You can, hook it up to a PC as a secondary screen and keyboard --- but it
takes specialized software and hardware to do that.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Walter McKinley <[log in to unmask]>



> A friend picked up a "like new" LINK brand monitor for me at an office
> auction. After a closer look, it seems to be a sort of "All in one PC". It
> has serial ports, parallel ports, and a proprietary keyboard connector on
> the monitor itself

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