Re: Yahoo! News - Schools Debate Price of PCs and Corporate Altruism

Richard Jobity <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:42:51 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.education.cis
Organization Richard Jobity
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Ross Gardler wrote:
> Raul Bermudez wrote:
> 
> 
>> HP reckons the unique design -- in which four keyboards and monitors are
>> connected to a single central processing unit -- will save schools up 
>> to 60
>> percent of their ballooning computer costs.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have the necessary expertise to experiment with building 
> such a system ourselves?
> 
> Ross
> 
> 

Hi, Ross.

Physically putting the system together is not the problem, not so much.
It's configuring the OS to accept multiple keyboad and mouse inputs.

Something we need to keep an eye on, to be sure.

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Richard Jobity, Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago | ph: (868) 620-5550
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