Information & Communications Technology
In 1984 the school acquired its first computers. They were two BBC microcomputers and used for demonstration purposes. They had 32K RAM and an external 5.25" floppy disk storage device and were using 14" television sets for screens. A year later we brought from England 14 more of the same type computers and set up our first computer lab of 16 stand alone computers. We also purchased a word processor and a spreadsheet on 8K ROM chips which we installed in each one. They already had BBC Basic preinstalled.
In 1986 we started the first GCE class in computer studies.
In 1989 the school installed its first Local Area Computer Network in the lab consisting of 16 Samsung PC's with 286 processors as workstations running on DOS 6.3 and a 386 computer as the File/Print Server. We used a Novell 2.11 Networking Operating System.
We kept that Network for 8 years and in 1997 we replaced it with a Novell 4.0 Network consisting of 16 Compaq Pentium 100 MHz workstations and a Pentium 120 as a file Server. These PC' s used Windows 95 and started using the Ms Office suite of programs as our applications in parallel to the GCE classes.
In the year 2000 the department acquired another computer lab where we set up a Windows network consisting of 21 Compaq Pentium 640 MHz PC's running on Windows 98. The File Server was eventually moved out of the computer Lab and into an IT room where it now runs the school network.
Presently, the department owns two computer Labs (room SB16 and room SB17) connected on to the school Network. Both contain 28 HP workstations
In 1986 we started the first GCE class in computer studies.
In 1989 the school installed its first Local Area Computer Network in the lab consisting of 16 Samsung PC's with 286 processors as workstations running on DOS 6.3 and a 386 computer as the File/Print Server. We used a Novell 2.11 Networking Operating System.
We kept that Network for 8 years and in 1997 we replaced it with a Novell 4.0 Network consisting of 16 Compaq Pentium 100 MHz workstations and a Pentium 120 as a file Server. These PC' s used Windows 95 and started using the Ms Office suite of programs as our applications in parallel to the GCE classes.
In the year 2000 the department acquired another computer lab where we set up a Windows network consisting of 21 Compaq Pentium 640 MHz PC's running on Windows 98. The File Server was eventually moved out of the computer Lab and into an IT room where it now runs the school network.
Presently, the department owns two computer Labs (room SB16 and room SB17) connected on to the school Network. Both contain 28 HP workstations
