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From: hare@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Hare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: networking Apple II's
Keywords: networking
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Date: 23 Sep 88 02:20:07 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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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