286's as X-terms

Hi, There is some discussion of turning 286's into psuedo-xterms (using VNC run on top of Nano-X) on Elks and Nano-X mailing lists. Elks networking at present is SLIP, but expect to go ethernet at some point. My question is whether there is a 'mass market' for this? Do schools have a large supply of 286 (or even 386) machines sitting in cupboards that could usefully be used as X terminals?? I expect that this sort of project may be more suited to the third world where the latest hardware is just too expensive. Simon Wood.