Networking CD-ROMs

[Nancy Bunker]

At 06:49 PM 9/23/97 -0700, David Burt wrote:
>I have three CD-ROM towers on a Novell LAN, and I'm about to get rid of the
>darn things: they're slow and cause me to do a lot of troubleshooting.  Most
>people I talk to aren't buying CD Towers, they are just buying big hard
>drives.  My vendor sells 9 GB Ultra Wide SCSI Drives for $1,900.  That's the
>equivelant of about 15 CD drives, and one heck of a lot faster.
>
I find that very interesting but do the CD Roms allow you to download the
entire disk to hard drive?  I am looking at adding a tower for a few of our
major reference sources OED, Gales Quotations, Grangers Poetry Index, McGraw
Hill Science and Technology Ency. etc.  How would one go about loading the
entire disk onto a hard drive (not to a LAN but a single computer since we
don't have multicomputer licensing for these products).

Thanks in advance
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Nancy Bunker
Coordinator of Reference Services
Whitworth College Library
Spokane, WA  99251-0901
(509)777-4481    nbunker at whitworth.edu