--- Forwarded Message from Scott Despain <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:44:04 -0400 >From: Scott Despain <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Computer-based lang.labs Marc, We have not regretted at all going with our 34-station Tandberg Prisma/Divace system. We do maintain our aging Tandberg analog lab but we are slowing moving our testing sessions, institutes, etc. over to the new lab and electronic classroom. We serve essentially any form of media from the master station to any/all student stations and vice versa directly (not through the LAN/Internet). We also have an LCD projection system with some nifty Bose speakers which will also take video and computer signals. We have had only a few problems, and found our Tandberg rep to be very helpful, prompt, courteous and willing to do whatever it takes to be sure that the problem is immediately solved. I teach a beginning Spanish Internet course out of the classroom on MWF and thoroughly enjoy applying these technologies ... APPROXIMATE (read: no flaming please) cost per unit based on our installation one year ago of a top-of-the-line student-station: $4000 ($2000-computer; $2000-Divace, headset, wiring, installation, etc.) Contact your Sony/Tandberg reps and I'm sure they'll be happy to send you quotes for any configuration you might be interested in. Scott-- ------------------------------- Scott Despain Assistant Professor, Spanish Foreign Languages & Literatures Acting Executive Director, Foreign Languages Lab System Office: Laundry 209 (FLTC) Phone: 513-2461 email: [log in to unmask] url: http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/faculty/despain/ > >Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:27:07 +0200 > >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information = > Forum <[log in to unmask]> > >From: Marc Fryd <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Computer-based lang.labs > >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > > ------------------ > Hi to all, > 1) Can anyone provide an estimate of the cost of a decent = > 20-station > computer-based language lab? > I have read the exchange on the Sony 9000/ Tandberg + Prisma = > solutions: > what kind of investment are talking about here? > 2) I am currently investigating the possibility of going totally = > digital in > a lang lab environment (that is without the use of any analog audio = > source > or wiring), for all types of applications including voice = > (multipoint) but > excluding video (too heavy for ethernet). Does anyone know of = > existing > solutions?=20 > Thanks in advance, > Marc Fryd > **************************************************** > *Marc Fryd * > *Charg=E9 de mission pour les nouvelles technologies * > *Universit=E9 de Poitiers * > *86022 Poitiers, France * > *Tel 0549453202 * > *Fax 0549453207 * > ****************************************************