[WEB4LIB] re: Everything on library public terminals

[Gary E. Masters]

At 11:13 AM 1/5/2000 -0800, Karen G. Schneider wrote:
>W
>When the dust settles after our deployment of PCs that are replacing (yuck)
>dumb terminals, we are going to take the CDs, now scattered across four
>machines, and consolidate them on one standalone, hopefully on a humongous
>hard drive (listed in the official technology budget for this year as
>"Humongous Hard Drive"), assuming we have enough left to warrant dedicating
>the whole machine to it (if not, you will be able to do Internet on the CD
>machine... but you will not be able to do CDs on the other Internet
>machines...).
Karen:

I have moved my CD's to a hard drive tower, but still prefer to go to the 
Internet for database services.  Every now and then they seem to cause a 
fault.  And the extra hard drive space requires a lot more RAM on the 
server - which I did not fully appreciate before I got the hard drives.

But my note is that when I set up the system and spent the time and effort 
to use all PC's and no dumb terminals, the other librarians continued to 
call every workstation a terminal.  (Probably because they were terminal 
emulators.)  But I got quite grumpy about it all.


Regards,

Gary Masters




Gary E. Masters
Automated Services Librarian
(956) 326-2137 (office)
(956)326-2399 (fax)