[Shu-cdromlan] Re: Children's software

[Doris Munson]

We currently use a CD-Net server for our networked CD-ROMs and it works pretty good.  We're only networking two titles right now, but at one time we were networking five titles and seven disks.  Most of the problems I ran into were easily solved when the CD-ROM publisher sent me an updated file required for networking.

We have three older Panasonic CD-ROM changers we are using on stand-alone workstations.  We have found that we start losing drives after three or four years.

I recently purchased a copy of Virtual CD for about $50.  Basically, it allows you create a to copy a CD-ROM to the hard drive and create a virtual CD-ROM drive for it.  You can create up to 23 "virtual" CD-ROM drives on one pc .  Despite great hopes that the CD-ROM changers would become obselete and that I could store the actual disks in a secure location, I found this works for some CD-ROMs but not all.  I simply could not get Oxford English Dictionary to work with this program.   OED has a file on the disk that it requires to run and that cannot be copied.  Oh well.  Heavy sigh....

Hope the above helps a little.



I hope this is of some help.
>>> thomas@ANAHEIM.LIB.CA.US 05/31/01 08:04AM >>>
I would like to know what the latest people are using in CD-ROM
networking technology.  We have some educational software that we would
like to network throughout the system but are having problems getting
some of the software to run on anything but the local CD-ROM drive.  We
need a way around this problem.

Are CD-ROM disc-changers still being made?  Is anyone running them with
Windows NT or 2000?
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Tom Edelblute
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Doris Munson
Catalog/Technical Systems Librarian
Clackamas Community College
19600 S. Molalla Avenue
Oregon City, OR 97045
(503) 657-6958 x2463
fax: (503) 655-8925
dorism@clackamas.cc.or.us