On Sat, 07 May 2005 07:32:36 -0700, Adam Smith wrote:
> I have a Home LAN and would like to access my computers from my garage
> workshop. Temperatures in there are relatively high and consequently I
> am a bit loathe to place a Workstation-CPU in there.

I had (until just recently) two 300MHz PCs in a small closet with
effectively no ventilation; they ran fine until the power supply blew
up in one... They might be more resistant to high external temperatures
than you expect, especially if the computer isn't doing much processing.

You might think about picking up an older laptop; they tend to run in
fairly wide conditions. My first laptop (er, desktop with embedded
B&W LCD) was a 16MHz '386 that lived through several arm-height drops
and probably would have survived a couple of gunshots, heat is
pretty much nothing.

> What I'd like to do is place just a monitor, keyboard & mouse in there
> that can access the network.

On a more general note, you'll need some kind of thin client
(thus processor) to do this over ethernet. You might consider digging
up a long KVM cable and running it through the wall, we have several 6-8
feet cables at work so they _are_ around... somewhere... but this requires
running a cable through the wall.

If you wind up with a cheap / slow / low-power computer, consider using
VNC or remote desktop to access the real computers; it will probably be
much more satisfying.

Good luck,
Tim

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Thanks Tim,
I was thinking of a thin client system but was unclear of the
interfacing with the server / network

Tim C wrote:
> On Sat, 07 May 2005 07:32:36 -0700, Adam Smith wrote:
>
>>I have a Home LAN and would like to access my computers from my garage
>>workshop. Temperatures in there are relatively high and consequently I
>>am a bit loathe to place a Workstation-CPU in there.
>
>
> I had (until just recently) two 300MHz PCs in a small closet with
> effectively no ventilation; they ran fine until the power supply blew
> up in one... They might be more resistant to high external temperatures
> than you expect, especially if the computer isn't doing much processing.
>
> You might think about picking up an older laptop; they tend to run in
> fairly wide conditions. My first laptop (er, desktop with embedded
> B&W LCD) was a 16MHz '386 that lived through several arm-height drops
> and probably would have survived a couple of gunshots, heat is
> pretty much nothing.
>
>
>>What I'd like to do is place just a monitor, keyboard & mouse in there
>>that can access the network.
>
>
> On a more general note, you'll need some kind of thin client
> (thus processor) to do this over ethernet. You might consider digging
> up a long KVM cable and running it through the wall, we have several 6-8
> feet cables at work so they _are_ around... somewhere... but this requires
> running a cable through the wall.
>
> If you wind up with a cheap / slow / low-power computer, consider using
> VNC or remote desktop to access the real computers; it will probably be
> much more satisfying.
>
> Good luck,
> Tim
>

> You might consider digging
> up a long KVM cable and running it through the wall

you can do KVM over Cat5 these days also