Recommended PC Hardware Comfiguration for use with Tango

1. General/Student workstation

   PC with Windows NT 4.0 SP5 (upgradable to Windows2000 asap)
    1. 400 MHz Pentium III   or faster
    2. 128 MB RAM or more
    3. 8GB HDD or more (can be IDE or ATA)
    4. Winnow 
       http://www.winnov.com/products/vidconfopropci.htm
       PCI Videum Conference Pro $359 
    5. SoundBlaster 64 not necessary if Winnov installed
       External speakers not necessary because of headset, but
       in classroom setting, 2 computers should have speakers
    6. Ethernet 10/100
    7. headset + microphone
       http://www.vxicorp.com/CTS/cts.hmx
       VXI Parrott 10-3    $59
    8. good quality monitor (19") and appropriate graphics card     
       1152x864   True Color, or
       1240x1024  True color - recommended
    9. CDROM 
   10. Software
       Microsoft office
       Textpad,  WinZIP,  FTP client,  netscape 4.7, IE 5

2. Teacher's workstation

   For present time, we recommend that instructors use TWO of the above
   workstations to allow for separation of BuenaVista (A/V
   conferencing), which can be highly resource intensive in a one-to-many
   teaching environment, from the remaining Tango tools.

   Eventually, we expect to recommend a single 2-processor system with
   more memory (256 MB) and larger monitor (1600x1200) as an alternative
   to using two separate workstations, but we have recently
   experienced subtle problems with Netscape on a handful of 2-CPU
   systems and do we would prefer to be cautious in our
   recommendations.

All brand name computers (Dell etc), do not buy clones.

Critical software (OS, Service Packs, browsers, Tango plugin) should
not be changed or upgraded without first checking with
tango-support@npac.syr.edu.  Browsers and Tango plugins in particular
will need to be kept in sync throughout PET userbase to insure
interoperability.