[wellylug] NCD X Terminals

[Tony Wills]

I've found a couple more of these NCD X Terminals, one is an NCD 17C 
(1024x768 17" screen) and the other is an NCD 88k with NCD 17cr monitor 
(1280x1024 17" screen) (These are earlier versions than the "Explora" 
version discussed a few months back).

I spent the weekend playing with them and found them pretty easy to setup 
to connect to a Mandrake box and display a full KDE session (also easy to 
use with telnet or as an X-server with its own windows manager to run 
X-applications without doing a full blown kde session).

The problem that Richard Hector had with emacs giving funny colours, is 
apparent when running NCDWare 3.5 but emacs works fine with their earlier 
X-server drivers v2.3 (the 3.5 drivers are still available from NCD's ftp 
site but the earlier ones aren't).

A question:
Did I sell/trade/swap an NCD 88k box without screen to someone in this 
group? (I sold a couple of complete systems, but I know someone took one of 
the bare 88k's off my hands but can't remember who).  If so, I now know the 
pin-outs for connecting monitors to them and even have a spare monitor 
suitable for it ...

If anyone else wants help setting up one of these beasts with linux let me know.