An infoserver is a small dedicated computer that you can hang disks on and then mount them over the network. In VMS this is done with a network driver called LAD - local area disk. It works pretty well, although speed is nothing to write home about. To my knowledge the infoserver 100 *only* speaks LAD, so if you've got ideas about mounting it from the unix world via NFS, forget about them. There was a LAD driver for Ultrix though. These things are from the days when CD drives were expensive, basically. You could put any external scsi device on them (I think even tape drives) but we used them for CDROM distribution at the university where I dealt with them. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Don't forget these worked with Ultrix, too. Although for most ultrix systems getting a SCSI CDROM attached was an option. On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Eric Dittman wrote: --

There were also clients for DOS/Windows and Macintosh. Zane