At some point next year, I will be looking at several challenges.
Currently, we have a Series 927LX with all internal printers/terminals
hooked up serially via DTC and the only outside connection happening is
a mux-modem connection to another location to run a terminal and couple
printers remotely.  We are slowly coming to depend on email more and
more in our business, including some EDI transactions coming in as file
attachments.

I would like to look at some of the following:
 - Getting Netmail/3000 to do our own email, rather than depending on an
ISP
 - Being able to browse the Internet from workstations

I figure we will need to do some of the following:
 - Establish an internet connection using our HP3000
 - Purchase larger HP3000 if the existing system won't handle the
   increase in workload
 - Wire our office for a LAN using the LAN that the DTC's are hooked up
to.
 - Eliminate dumb terminals and at least purchase smart terminals that
can
   operate on a LAN
 - Learning about these packages such as Apache that are used to
facilitate
   internet access on the 3000.  Going from using the Internet and
facilitating
   access to the internet is a leap for me.

So, my question is this.  Starting (in many ways) completely from
scratch, is there a primer that exists that would take me step by step
through what needs to be done to access the internet and do email via
the 3000?
        Tom Hula
        Victor S. Barnes