CD ROM Towers

[Don Shields <0006514431@MCIMAIL.COM>]

In response to two inquiries from the group as follows:

From:    Betty Dawn Hamilton <bhamilt@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: CD Rom Network

> Have any of you tried to put a cd rom network on the same computers that
> hold your Follett system? Any of you use a Meridian tower? We have had so
> many different "experts" give us so many different answers we are going
> nuts. Please let me know of your successes (and failures). If you are
> from Southern California, perhaps we could visit you. Thanks for your
help.
>
> Marge Congress  La Sierra High School   Riverside, CA
> mcongre@eis.calstate.edu


Please post responses to the group so we all can see the discussion.  I,
too, would like to network cds.

Thanks!

Betty
Betty Hamilton      <bhamilt@tenet.edu>     Voice: (806) 637-4523

Yes we have been successfully been using a CD Rom Tower for over a year, we
are located 350 miles North of Los Angeles and you are welcome to visit or
installation. You are probably getting so many confilicting ideas because
there are so many different was to configure LANS ! The answer depends more
on your budget, your current LAN configuation and future growth patterns.
There are many, many schools using towers and even peer to peer LAN sharing
schemes my guess is very few are exactly alike. We run Novell 3.12 Netware,
our 7 CD Rom tower and connections and programming came from The Network
Group here in Mammoth Lakes. We run just about everything on it including
Windows MPC programs (Groliers), SIRS, MAS and never have had a failure or
hiccup. We have eight workstations in the Library.

Don Shields
Mammoth Unified School District
6514431@mcimail.com