Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!hare From: hare@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Hare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: networking Apple II's Keywords: networking Message-ID: <4939@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 02:20:07 GMT Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 19 Greetings! This is my first posting to this newsgroup (I've tried unsuccessfully three other times). As a board member of a local Christian elementary school, I have inherited 15 donated Apple II+'s (without monitors or disk drives). I have repaired about 10 of them and would like to provide each class with one, plus some for admin, library, etc. Several questions come to mind. Is this even worth it? I would have to buy monitors and disk drives. Is there network software available to boot them diskless from one or two hard disks? Can I purchase used parts such as floppy drives and monitors to keep the costs down? Any comments, suggestions or help to equip the school with these donated machines or decide against the project would be appreciated. Please e-mail your responses rather than posting to the net. Thanks, Steve Hare Purdue University Computer Sciences Department hare@cs.purdue.edu 317-494-7820