MCSC Announcements

Hard Disks and Tape Backups Now at MCSC Counter


With computer applications getting bigger and bigger that 80MB hard disk you purchased a year or two ago probably seems awfully small these days. A cost effective way to prolong the life of your computer is to add an external hard disk. And when you do finally move up to a bigger and better system, the external drive can move with you and will still be useful for backup or just extra storage.

The MCSC now carries several lines of popular disk drives depending on your needs and budget. Microtech makes high quality hard disks ranging in size from 350MB to 1GB. Starting at $244 these attach to most Macs and those PCs with SCSI adapters.

Removable drives offer you the added advantage of never running out of storage room. They use inexpensive cartridges and you can buy as many as you need.The Zip drive from Iomega sells for only $199. These drives use 100mb cartridges. Syquest drives come in several sizes and use cartridges ranging from 88mb to 270MB. They start at $400.

The Colorado Trakker 350 external tape backup drive is another new product in stock at the MCSC counter. It attaches to the parallel port of any PC. DOS and Windows applications are included for automating the backup process. The drives sell for $252. Additional tapes are only $19.20. For more information on any of the products described stop by one of the MCSC showrooms and talk to one of the consultants.




Silicon Graphics Computer Systems


SGI Varsity Program Quarterly Product Update CDs are available for Varsity site license participants to borrow from the MCSC. The CDs contain Varsity software product that have changed since the last Update was distributed plus new products that have been added. SGI has also provided "Desktop Special Edition 1.0", a bonus software CD that contains Netscape Navigator 1.1JS, Webmagic 2.0 Webspace 1.0, Adobe Acrobat, Insignia Softwindows® and other titles.
Please contact Marcia Hoffmann (marcia.hoffmann@yale.edu or 2-6644) to reserve copies of the CDs or to enroll in the Varsity Program.


Site Licenses

MCSC manages site license agreements with the following manufacturers:
€Apple
€Digital Equipment Corp.
€IBM
€FTP
€MathWorks
€Microsoft
€Novell WordPerfect
€SAS
€Silicon Graphics Inc.
€Sun Microsystems
€SPSS
€Systat
€White Pine Software
€Wolfram

Check the MCSC Software Catalog on the Web for a complete listing of the software titles included in these agreements. Contact Marcia Hoffmann (432-6644) to request an enrollment form and a price list.



MCSC Announces New Software Titles in the Sun Software Maintenance Program:

Scholar Pak III is the new site license agreement that has been negotiated with Sun Microsystems. In addition to the Sun Operating System the following eight titles are available to participants in the Sun SMP: SparcWorks Professional Fortran; SparcWorks Professional; Pascal; Professional C; Professional C++; PC-NFS Pro; SparcWorks iMpact; SunLink PPP and Solaris SDK.

For more information and an enrollment form contact Marcia Hoffmann
(432-6644).


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