The server is a UNIX machine with a domain name. A name server, a WWW server, a FTP server and so on run on the UNIX. In all, the server is equipped with necessary features to operate as an independent site on the Internet.
The schools had the choice of a Windows PC or a Macintosh for their client
machine. Running on a client were a mail reader, a WWW browser and so on.
Only one client was far from enough, though, the client was expected to give
good examples to the teachers when they set up additional clients on
their own.
As was expected. at the time of July 1996, about 80 percent of the member
schools installed additional clients.
Six months after the initial delivery, a set of equipment and software for information dispatch were added to the delivery list. The set included a digital camera, a color scanner and various software to edit information of multi-media sources. Thus the environment for information dispatch was bettered and dispatching via WWW practiced easilier.