I once worked for a large, urban Episcopal church. Since it was non-profit, parishioners could donate their old computers for a tax write-off. Amongst my many d

I once worked for a large, urban Episcopal church. Since it was non-profit, parishioners could donate their old computers for a tax write-off. Amongst my many duties, I converted these hulks into network terminals. They ran Novell (DR) DOS on a Novell 3.12 network. I used third world cheapo compatible NICs since my annual computer budget was in the few hundreds of dollars. And as long as the patch cord wiring system held up the thing actually worked...