Yeah, we’d buy a Compaq desktop usually, 386/20 or 386/25, slap a tape backup drive in the front and a massive 80 MB hard drive in the body, then put in one or two 8-port serial cards (DigiBoards, I think) with these huge 25-pin serial octopus dongles hanging out the back. We’d install SCO System V Unix on it, then take it out to the client and set it up with Wyse 50 (or similar) terminals after installing accounting software on it. And thus you’d have a company running 12 or so terminals on a 25 MHz 386 covering their entire business. I think back to those days and honestly wonder how we could make that work.
(BTW, I sure don’t miss the days of pinning serial cables by hand. UGH.)
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I hated that! And don't get me started with trying to get serial printers to handshake with the Digiboards. Good grief!
No graphics then, graphics now.