On Wed, 1 May 1996, Kyle Cooley wrote:
> I am in the process of evaluating CD-Rom use for our school system. We are
> accumlating an amazing amount of disks and I would like to tap your minds
> for a few ideas.
Ok
> - Has anyone used or heard about someone using one of these CD towers (7+
> CD changer) on a network? We have a few libraries with anywhere from 4 to
> 10 Macs, three are localtalk and two are Ethernet. They are running Apple
> filesharing now but will be getting new servers this summer. How is the
> speed on these things? Are they easy to set up and use?
Yes, To make most CDs (multimedia) of education worthwhile in a CD
Tower/server make sure your network is using 100MPS backbone or greater.
The old standard (10MPS) is very slow for video and sound.
Definitions: 100MPS = Fast Ethernet 100 megabits a second
10MPS = The old stand ethernet 10 megabits a second
Yes they are easy to set up providing you have set up network servers
before. They act like an application server. Of course, I assume you are
getting network versions of your CDs.
> - Also I would like any ideas about how teachers catalog, share and/or
> distribute their CD's in their buildings or districts.
Why? Why distribute CDs? Especially if you have CD Tower on the network.
> I'm sorry these questions are so broad. I would appreciate any tidbits or
> experiences that could be offered.
No problem. Very typical on these lists.
IHIH,
Eduard L. Frerking
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