>Hi David... > >I think my clients "vision" of "dumb terminal" is indeed, the "old" >definition you referred to. They run a photography business, not >computerized as of yet, although they have one at home that they keep their >financial records on. In talking with them, I feel they are wishing to get >into the "vision" they have seen depicted in movies or at other >"old-school" depictions of the computerized work place... one "mainframe" >unit with several screens and keyboards scattered about the workplace to >enter information into the main unit. I believe they are using this >outdated vision to go with. I will be meeting with them early this week, >and will explain to them that getting 2-3 inexpensive complete systems and >network them together with say, Access or even Outlook, would be more cost >effective than what they are thinking. As a slightly off-topic comment, my father owns a photography studio and I wrote a "studio managment" system for him about 10 years ago. It supports 1 "dumb" terminal and a master terminal. The satilite terminal is an real IBM PC - no hard drive - Just a 5 1/4 inch floppy running DOS 5.0 and Kermit. The Main system is also running DOS 5.0. The original main system was a PC AT - Now it's a PC AT case running a 386 motherboard ... That old hardware never dies :-) Joel Joel Rosenblatt - [log in to unmask] (Columbia University) Mgr VM Systems and Team OS/2 member - http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~joel 612 W 115th St.,N.Y. N.Y. 10025,711 WATSON,(212) 854-3033 PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html