Re: Apple //gs school lab server.

[grent@comcast.net]

compctech@gmail.com wrote:
> I remember when I was in elementary school (1989-1995) that we had a
> lab of Apple //gs computers booting threw a server. I would like to
> know what the server is that was used. It was a silver box with a few
> status lights on it. It used a cat-3(? phone line) to connect all the
> computers together. If a brake in the line was made (unplugging the
> network line), all the computers will crash (I had fun doing this in
> the lab).
>
> The workstation would boot to a menu that the user can scroll threw and
> select a program that would boot as if the user had placed a disk in
> the drive and was booting off it.
>
> I have been trying to figure this out for the past few years. If any
> one would know what the server is, I would like to know.  I was working
> in a school that was still using it, but they threw it out and I never
> got to look at it. (The school was replacing all computers with win xp.)

Hi,
  They were probably Digicard. Will try to send you some pictures thur
your Email. They used the Mandrake software which I do not have. But
Mr. Brad does.

Take Care,