is there a way to hook up one computer to 5 moniters,keyboards and mice.and have them all be able to be on computer or internet at same time.and also can you time the usage from the main comp.ty in advance

Hm, I don't know of a way to do that because it would require five lots of ports for each of those pieces of hardware. Maybe a KVM switch. The method I was thinking of when I read your article is the "thin client" way. This is where you have, in your case, five very stripped-down and bare base units with no hard drives, optical drives or anthing. Just a motherboard with the onboard components and some memory, basically. You also need a bootable network card, i.e. one that can have network boot information written to it. This is known as "PXE bootable". You then set up the single machine as a terminal server. When you switch any of the machines on, it reads the information in the network chip and then literally boots completely from your terminal server. It gets all of the boot files needed. After about a minute, it will be showing the login screen. The concept is that these machines act like "dumb terminals" and are just a window to the server machine. In this way, it's like all five of the machines are logged on at the same time to that same machine. This has the added advantage that everyone can share resources and the client machines can be incredibly low-spec — even a 486 with 32MB of RAM will work! Even with this sort of machine, you will feel as if you're on a very fast machine indeed (as fast as the server) and, as such, this is entirely suited to an Internet cafe sort of setup. The only niggle that you might not like is that this sort of setup only works on GNU/Linux, the free operating system. For more information, go to k12ltsp.org. And, just to top it off, someone has been in your situation and written DireqCafe , "a full featured and complete free and open-source internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution". In other words, perfect for what you want. When somebody requires to use one of the machines, you take the money and add them to the list on the server using DireqCafe. It's a very comprehensive piece of software that is idea for Internet cafes. By the way, this sort of terminal server with dumb terminals was being used decades ago until computer prices fell and everyone could have "their own computer on their desk". However, the advantage is that there is only one computer to administer, everyone has the same applications and desktop, you can forcefully log users off without even going to their workstation, it doesn't suffer from any malware and you can control what users can do, i.e. which applications, network ports etc.

Oops I meant "post" instead of "article" and "anything" instead of "anthing". And I meant "...that is ideal for Internet cafes." I really should read before clicking post next time.