Getting ready to make a thin client thick

The $75 thin client should be arriving today, and I'm ready.

I cannibalized the following from This Old PC and elsewhere:

-- PS/2 keyboard and mouse
-- IDE drive cable (just in case -- the pictures made it look like I might need one)
-- 1 GB Compact Flash module with Puppy Linux installed
-- 128 MB PC-100 memory module (not from This Old PC, but from my spare-parts collection)
-- 256 MB USB drive with Puppy installed (just in case it does boot from USB)
-- Old 14-inch VGA monitor, off of which I've wiped the first layer of grime.

To get Puppy on the CF module, I used a CF-to-IDE adapter that I plugged into the IDE port in This Old PC. Then I installed Puppy onto it from the CD. The Puppy Universal Installer is pretty good -- it turns out I could've made the CF module into an IDE-bootable drive without using the adapter; the installer will prepare the chip while it's connected via a USB card reader (which I also have ready).

The Puppy Universal Installer offers many options for making USB drives and CF chips (as well as IDE and SATA hard drives) bootable if the standard install doesn't work. Kudos to the Puppy developers for making both the mounting of drives as well as the installation of the OS to them so easy.

So all I need to do now is wait for the Maxspeed Maxterm 1 GHz thin client to arrive ...

Photos: The Maxspeed Maxterm, inside and out, from Unix Surplus' eBay listing.