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Chad Irby (cirby@news.gate.net) wrote:
[snipt]
: Most really large Mac installations have full-time Mac admins because 
: they also have things like laser printers and other peripherals, and to 
: do things like evaluate new software to see if it works, and to perform 
: tasks like installing extra RAM or adding new drives.  I've never seen a 
: Mac admin having to work hard at all at *any* site.

I have. I had a friend that was sole Mac admin for the local hi-tech high 
school. 


There are 240+ Macs at this school, each of them on EtherNet. The four 
buildings are connected with T1 cable. Each of the four multi-media 
lecture halls has 2 large TV monitors hooked to the ceiling and connected 
to a QUadra, a Laser disk player, a VCR, and both the EtherNet network 
and a sepearate multi-media-dedicated T1 network (not to be confused with 
the network for the Macs).

In addition, he served as the domain admin for their internet link, and 
was the First Class E-mail admin, as well as the trainer for computer 
newbies, and was the trouble-shooter/repairman for all Apple products on 
the campus. He also conducted 2 computer classes for the students and was 
the main Mac lab monitor.


Exhausted? You might say that. He aged about 10 years in the 18 months 
that he had the job.


I'm interested in seeing how well a single administrator of 240+ brand new 
WIndows 95-designed PCs, with all-new Plug and Play peripherals, will do 
under the same circumstances...


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