[11482] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
MACs and CD access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott P. Muir)
Tue Jul 15 20:33:57 1997
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:13:49 -0500
From: "Scott P. Muir" <muirs@bc.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: muirs@bc.edu
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My campus has a number of people who use MACs - about 50%
of the students, about 90% of the faculty - all of whom are
connected to the campus network The Libraries subscribe
to a number of CD-ROM databases - the majority of which
only work with the IBM platform. Our long range goals are
to move all databases to a WEB-based medium, but in the
short-term we are looking at solutions that provide access
to the users of MACs. I have seen WEB-based front-end
that can launch a DOS session that will run the CD-ROM and
wondered if there were any products that did both platforms
or the MAC.
Any experience and suggestions will be appreciated.
Thank you.
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Scott P. Muir
muirs@bc.edu
Boston College
(617)552-3155 voice
(617 552-8828 fax
mailto: muirs@bc.edu
