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From: tkilday@sparta.spartacus.com (Thomas Kilday)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: pclans
Keywords: novell banyan 3com
Message-ID: <204@sparta.spartacus.com>
Date: 18 Dec 90 21:35:59 GMT
Organization: Spartacus, Inc.
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   I am looking into getting a pclan for Spartacus. At spartacus we
have IBM mainframes, sun workstations, a Vax, an Apple plus and 50 PCs.

   I am looking to get a PC network initially for the marketing dept.
but probably expanding to sales, customer support and manufacturing and
inventory and possibly accounting. So I'm looking for a basic network for
print sharing but is easily expandable. All the PCs are currently hooked
up to the network with 8 bits novell 5010 ethernet cards.

  I was wondering what network would be best to hook up the initial 8 PCs
and a MAC Plus. and how easy it is to install or would it be best for
me to pay someone to install it.  Also is it alright to use 8 bit cards
if your only using it for common data.

  Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

                                       Thank you
                                       Tom Kilday