[WEB4LIB] Re: PC public configuration

[J.M. Latham]

Isn't the government beginning to publish on DVD?

Joyce

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, D. Popeck wrote:

> >The ones I'm ordering will be over the minimum, of course.  In case anyone
> >is interested, we're going with Pentium IIIs (933 Mhz or better) because our
> >IT people are not thrilled with the Pentium IV which runs hotter and uses
> >more electricity, and aren't being run at their most efficient yet, though
> >they may be better used by the fall.  I'm going with 256 MB RAM, Zip and DVD
> >and hopefully CD-read/writeable.  I'd say 128 MB is a minimum on RAM.
>
> Does anyone use DVD at their libraries? I have not upgraded at home or work
> (especially since CD ROMs are dirt cheap now.) Perhaps there is valuable
> software on DVD out there, but we have no "need" for DVD as far as I can tell.
>
> D. Popeck
> Madison Library
>