Scored some Thin client computers at Goodwill today (no replies)

Was that a shock! I'm a thrift store junkie, and some computer place around here has a soft spot in their hearts for Goodwill. There's a company called Wyse that I'm pretty sure has merged with Dell lately. So I score three of them. What they are is, super low power computers - two are 300-ish megahertz 256 MB RAM and the 3rd is 1.2 Ghz and 512 RAM! All running windows CE. The ideas is, cloud computing and these are very likely from a hospital or medical clinic. So all they exist for is to remote desktop to a heavier server.

All that's on them is an extremely stripped-down Internet Explorer, Media player and a startup interface for remote desktop connection. 60 MB total flash drive! That's wonderfully lean. The desktop I want to connect with is the Pogoplug of course.

The only downside i care about is the Ethernet is only 100 Mbps, but there's amazing similarities between this and the pogoplug. One, that even off it takes up a few watts. I only got one power supply though, tested all three and they're good.

So I encourage anyone here, between now and spring break, lots of computer enterprises are overhauling their networks and for $20 i scored three units less than 2 years old that run at less power than a Raspberry Pi yet runs Windows and that's my front end into the linux Pogoplug. And i wish the same you as good a geek luck as I had today.