Our newest tool in the district for technology development is a CD-ROM burner. This equipment allows us to create our own CDs of programs, datea, and mutli-media. The equipment and manual is located in the Middle School Office, and is attached to a Power Mac 5260, which contains an extension set-up to run just the burner extensions with all others turned off. See the catalog for specific information.
Most new computers have CD-ROM drives, while only a few have Zip disc drive.
A CD-ROM disc can be created for both IBM and Mac platforms, while Zip discs need to be formatted to one choice. Burning a disc varies in time depending on the amount of information to be transferred. Around 40 minutes for a full disk. The format depends on projected uses of the CD by the user, but I believe the best format is ISO 9660 which allows cross platform use. We can make copies of CD's for back-ups in case the originals are damaged.