The PCs are slated for video-intensive applications and will be the only PCs in the district with ATM to the desktop. The connection will provide dedicated streaming video to any of the district's PCs with a Motion Picture Experts Group II decoder, he said. In addition, faculty will be able to pick up voice mail messages, e-mail and faxes through Outlook. The server is housed at the district's server farm at Mount Pleasant Middle School, Schmidt said. Exchange Server sends an e-mail notification message and attaches the voice mail file.
Outlook plays the message over any PC with a sound card.
Teachers also can check voice mail messages at home through Microsoft Web Outlook. Half of the district's stock of 2,000 PCs are 233-MHz IBM 300XLs with 64M of RAM and 2.5G hard drives. The other half are 350-MHz IBM 300PLs with 128M of RAM and 3G hard drives. All rights reserved.