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Since 1998 one of my colleagues at Seneca College, '''<font color="#000000"><font>''John Selmys''</font></font><font color="#000000"><font></font></font>''', experimented with a technique to cost-effectively connect old "junky" computers that did not have a hard disk drive to a more powerful computer server. When that computer department moved in 2005, it was discovered that those "ancient" machines were still being used by students to work on their assignments / perform homework...
The technology was developped by '''Jim MacQuillan''', and the project is called '''LTSP''' ('''<u>L</u>'''inux <u>'''T'''</u>erminal <u>'''S'''</u>erver <u>'''P'''</u>roject) the website is [http://ltsp.org / ltsp.org]
Those workstations are referred to as "thin-clients" since most of the processing is performed by the server, and routine tasks (like accepting input from mouse & keyboard and displaying graphics on monitor) are performed just in the thin client's internal memory (RAM).
