P lease contact us if you can offer your time, products, services, or equipment. In 2000, the Department of Information Services precipitated the move of our office facilities into the Visitors Center. We now provide the membership with four workstations in the new office, one in the Gift Shop, and one in the Conference Room. The Connecticut Fire Museum has also joined our local area network with three workstations. The workstation in the Gift Shop now features point of sale software, a barcode scanner, and a receipt printer.
All workstations now offer access to the local area network and the Internet.
A new network file server with twin Pentium Pro processors and Windows NT Server software provides fast, reliable access. Our network topology has been upgraded to full duplex fast Ethernet with the addition of a high speed switch. Thanks to very generous donations by several divisions of General Electric, our 60MHz Pentium computers have all been replaced with machines featuring speeds of at least 200MHz. In 2001, software and hardware will continue to updated as it becomes available. In an effort to improve the technology in our library, a computer workstation and printer will be installed and connected to our local area network.