TooMuchGreen

What goes around comes around (to coin a phrase – with another) and in the computing world basic concepts can be no different.

Unlike the high powered, self contained desktop units of today early computing functionality was delivered from a central unit (a mainframe) which shared it’s resources to client terminals, the end user was basically presented with a screen and keyboard, no internal storage and no local control over the software. The generic term for this type of configuration is a Thin Client system.
Popular Thin Client solutions for business use outside of computer labs and academic institutes were systems from Wyse (I used to support Wyse systems in the mid 90′s). Wyse terminals presented the user with green screen text via serial data transmission (as oppose to ethernet) and were adopted for use around the National Health service (hospitals & doctors surgeries). Modern day Wyse systems are still the norm around the medical world and although hooked up around more recent software are still based on the same original concept.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:54 mins)