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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novice LAN Questions
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.224549.24268@mccc.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:45:49 GMT
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
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Our dean of administration has just given the OK to set up a LAN in our
building for use by faculty and staff.  It would include about a dozen
MSDOS PCs and would be used primarily for electronic mail and
work-sharing among faculty and secretaries.  

We have lots of unused twisted pairs in our telephone wiring.  Can we
use them?  That would mean Ethernet, right?  Specifically, what hardware
and software do we need?

If the experiment works well, we will want to extend this to (a) other
buildings, (b) UNIX computers, and (c) VAXen running VMS.  What
hardware and software will we need then?

Thanks,
Pete

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