Marcos - I congratulate you on your fine work wtih DP. I agree with
Jerome, Lantastic was a simple yet highly reliable and effective
networking tool in the DOS and early Windows days which I used in
multiple sites at one time. Novell also once had a very simple and
easy to implement peer-to-peer networking software package that was
very useful if not as long lived as the Lantastic product. There
should be hundreds of old Lantastic licenses laying around out there .
. . I'm pretty sure I threw mine away years ago but perhaps others
were more determined to keep them around.
I'd also check around American charities that specialize in helping
health centers. I don't know all the rules but Brothers Brother in
Pittsburgh, PA used to have heaps of old computers and accessories,
maybe even software, available.
Good luck and keep us abreast of how we might help.
Don Friedman
Pittsburgh, PA USA
On 3/30/07, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear list colleagues,
This is a request for help with networking DP.
The DP application I implemented in our health center is a
success. Users are enthusiastic! The center is part of the
public health system, and takes (good) care of 30,000 people,
mostly from poor neighbourhoods.
(A comment is in order here about how people react to DP.
Most of these doctors and nurses are very smart and
pragmatic. Although they are initially puzzled at the sight
of a character-based screen, in minutes they realize that
DP is doing exactly the things they so badly want ... and it
does them with a certain elegance all its own. They are
surprised! And if any still has reservations, I put on my
technical face and casually tell them the system will handle
5 million records and 9,999 network users without crashing.
And I tell them about our mailing list. That does the trick.)
Now doctors and nurses are glimpsing all the possible uses of
the system, and they would like to have access to the database
from 5 different rooms in the building, i.e., we need a network.
I have no experience with networks, so any suggestions from you
will be welcome. I'm not a computer professional; my background
is in engineering.
For economic and environmental reasons we are using old
computers (typically early Pentiums) donated by individuals from
the community. They are running on pure DOS.
We are prepared to buy spare parts (network cards, etc.) as
needed, but we would like to stay away from fancy hardware and
software. Keeping things simple and inexpensive will help
replicate the project at other health centers.
Thanks,
Marcos Florence
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Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Campinas (near Sao Paulo), Brazil
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