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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware & network recommendations
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.025549.2442@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 89 02:55:49 GMT
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In article <2089@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
>[ replies directed to *.hardware, but email is preferred -- I'll summarize ]
>
>I have just been told I can purchase a few new Mac systems, but must
>make a decision within about 10 days.  To help me in this, I seek the
>collective expertise of the net.
>
>One of the things I would like to establish is some sort of LAN.  We
>currently have 2 Pluses and one II; I hope to get another Plus, an
>SE/30 and either a IIcx or a portable.  We also will have a couple of
>HP Vectras (MSDOS) and a handful of HP 9000s.  I'd like to integrate
>the Vectras, and leave open the future possibility of adding the 9000s.
>I would much rather use Ethernet rather than Appletalk, but I'm not
>sure how well this would work.
>
>* Can a MacPlus be outfitted with Ethernet?  An SE?  An SE/30?  I'm
>  certain the II series can.
SE's and SE/030s can.  Plus's can't, to my knowledge. All Ethernet is
expensive.
>
>* One plan is to put about a 40MB hard drive on each machine, along
>  with a SyQuest on each.  I would rather see about 20MB on each
>  machine with about a 300MB drive as a file server.  How can I best
>  set up a file server?  Must it be dedicated, or can it also be used
>  by humans?
Don't use 20MB drives-- the jump in performance from 20 to 40 is greater than
any other, in my experience.
>
>* How soon until I can get a IIci and be reasonably sure that things
>  won't randomly break because it's such a new machine?  How much of
>  a problem is this now?  I hear more reports of "Why did xxx break
>  on my IIci" than I do "Wow, the IIci is a great machine".
Never.  By the time the 'infant mortaility' settles down, a new machine
will be out, and things will ONLY work on it...
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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