Thanks (quite belatedly!) for your report closing out the Autumn Quarter!

I'm sending you an email right now which mentions connecting with our new staff member for Robinson, and response to a couple of the tech items in your report just above -- which I'm going to copy here, in case the general points are applicable to anybody else's school contexts.  

So I did stop by the school briefly on the last week of Autumn, a couple days after your visit with the items you mention.  

  -- At that time, I installed some extra RAM in nine of the computers in the lab.  It seemed to help somewhat, though not spectacularly. These were given to us by a CPS department, and we are still working out doing a bulk purchase.  

 -- I stopped by 210 and did the INSTR join on one of Ms. Neely's computers that you mention.  You're right, the official script from the Harte-ADM01 wasn't working on this computer (for reasons I don't know).  So I bypassed the script and just joined the domain manually.  Terry or I will show you how that works sometime.  

 -- It sounds like a small Ethernet switch (or "hub" -- but not literally the older device actually called hub!) is indeed the right solution for connecting that additional computer in the office.  I'm glad you suggested that to them.  FYI, CUIP usually has a few 5-port or 8-port ethernet 10/100 mini-switches on hand that we can put in a school when that seems the best way to quickly solve a connectivity problem.  But exactly as you did, we would always normally start by advising them to order one -- and offer to put in one of our spares only if looked like the ordering process would be slow or complicated in some way.  So we may go to that plan-B if they haven't dealt with ordering that yet.

Thanks again, and welcome back for Winter!