Document Type
Issue Area Five
Abstract
I came to the Iowa City Community School District after working for four years in the Information Systems Division, Computer Operations Department at American College Testing (ACT). I started by managing approximately 80 DOS and 10 Macintosh computers on one Novell Netware Network. Select stations also had a second serial connection to an asynchronous switch that connected them to the mainframes at the University of Iowa and National Computer Systems. In the course of my time at ACT, we added approximately 600 DOS and 30 more Macintosh, all running on a now integrated Wide Area Network. The network consisted of 31 Novell Netware File Servers distributed throughout the Iowa City area and 8 more located nationwide. We employed dial-up, Dedicated 56k and Tl, and fiber optics circuits running IPX, Appletalk, and Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). With the increased number of stations requiring access to the University, and the volume at which the usage had grown, a dedicated Tl circuit was installed allowing every station access to the University mainframe as well as the Internet. Wow, did that add a world of information to fingertips. At that time, I used the Internet primarily for access to vendor and manufacturer hosts across the nation for updates on DOS, Macintosh, and Netware software.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
131
Last Page
132
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wentzien, H. Troy
(1995)
"After the "How," ask "Who" Will Have Access?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 43.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss3/43
