art of the company will be the technology that it has available coupled with the expertise of its employees in using that technology. In order to provide as wide a range of services as possible, personal computers networked together will form the basis of the company. Both IBM-compatible machines and Apple Macintosh computers will be used.
The IBM-compatible machines will be 486-chip based personal computers running at 66 megahertz with 500 megabyte hard drives and dual floppy diskette drives (5.25( and 3.5( inch). Each PC-compatible machine will have 20 megabytes of RAM. Oversized monitors will be used in order to prevent eyestrain and also to enhance the productivity of the desktop publishing specialists. Each IBM-machine will have an internal tape backup system so that files can automatically be backed up nightly, and the network server will have a CD-ROM drive for access to software.
The Apple machines will be similarly equipped, but will lack the internal tape drive (since none are readily available). Instead, a removable hard drive will be used to provide back up for the Macintosh machines.
The network itself will be a Novell network that will run on a 486-based machine with a one gigabyte hard drive. This will also be a 66 megahertz machine, and will have 32 megabytes of RAM.
A Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4si with the PostScript option will serve as the primary output device for the service. In addition, a color printer (the Hewlett-Packard 550C) will be used for those jobs which require color output. Both printers will be accessible to all workstations through the server.
The owner, office manager and one of the desktop publishing specialists will have PC-compatible machines, and the server will be a PC-compatible machine. The office manager will have a low-powered machine since most of the work performed by the office manager will be done directly on the server. The remaining two desktop publishing s...