That’s apparently what was on [Crimson Repair]’s mind lately, the result being the discovery that an old thin client PC makes ... a touchscreen using an old Android phone.

One of the great predictions of desktop computing from the mid 1990s was that we would all move to so-called thin clients, stripped-out desktop computers containing only processor, display driver ...

A client machine that relies on the server to perform the data processing. Either a dedicated thin client terminal or a regular PC with thin client software is used to send keyboard and mouse ...

A type of thin client that permanently contains only system software for booting the operating system from the network. Applications come from the server as well, and there is no local storage.