Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1993 TAG: 9312080088
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
Pat Duncan, school director, told its board Tuesday that Computerland in Roanoke would arrange the demonstration for its Feb. 1 meeting.
The board will not meet in January.
The plan is to link first with Pulaski County High School, where the Governor's School is located, and then see about expanding to schools in Bland, Smyth, Wythe, Carroll, Floyd and Giles counties and the city of Galax.
Board members representing some of those localities said Tuesday that they thought their school systems would be eager to take advantage of software available in the region only at the Governor's School.
"If we're going to be a school of math, science and technology, that's the way we should present ourselves to these communities," Duncan said.
The school systems would have to buy IBM-compatible computers, if they do not have one already, and a modem to tap into the software.
Otherwise there would be no cost except for the long-distance telephone charges, an estimated $15 per hour.
"The counties are sending money in here anyway for their students," Duncan said, adding that this would be a way for them to get even more for their investments.
"They could sit there and actually be on our system very cheaply," she said.
"Not only that, they can daisy-chain some of their computers in their science department."
"The only alternative you'd have is to put the kids on a bus and take them where the system is," said Bob Carlson of the Governor's School faculty.
by CNB