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CCI Computers - Yucca Valley

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1999 promises to be an exciting year for CCI and our customers. Some of the highlights unfolding in the next six months include:

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CCI has moved to a new location.
CCI was in its previous location for the last 9 years. We have purchased our own building and after some heavy renovation we successfully moved the week after Christmas. We are really excited about this move as our store has a more professional look and business is up.

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Web Email Client

CCI& RemarQ have partnered to make it easy to access over 30,000 discussion groups covering almost every topic imaginable. Each discussion group is a community focused on a particular topic of interest. Using our newsgroup service you can participate in these communities to find information, ask questions and share your experiences and expertise.

Do you want to receive email in any POP3 email account you have from anywhere using a browser?

Do you want to send email from any browser using any of your email accounts to anyone else?
Works anywhere. As long as you can access the web server using a browser, you can use AnyEMail. No need to have direct TCP/IP access, works through a proxy, even a firewall.
Can access any email accounts you have. Great if you have multiple email accounts on different POP3 servers.
Can send email to anyone using any of your email accounts.
Easy to use. No setup, just enter email addresses of your POP3 account. You can access multiple accounts at the same time, just popup another browser window, and go the URL for the CGI program.
Fast. Because most of the work is done on the web server, which has fast internet connection and fast CPU.

Servers Updated

On 23 March, 1999, CCI will be expanding its internet operation. CCI will be installing new servers in its Yucca Valley location that will allow Yucca Valley subscribers to access our new 56K V.90 K56 Dial Up service without utilizing the existing Roll Over from the Joshua Tree Exchange. This will do several things.

Relieve the Twentynine Palms server of the heavy Yucca Valley traffic, thus allowing Twentyine Palms and Joshua Tree Subscribers to have easier access without busy signals.
Increase the number of Dial Up lines for the Yucca Valley subscribers by 8 times, thus relieving them of any busy signals.
Allow 56K V.90 K56 Dial Up Service to the Yucca Valley Subscribers.

The Twentyine Palms location will be installing 2 new 56K V.90 K56 Servers and adding an additional 34 Dial Up lines. This will eliminate any busy signals and upgrade your dial up service from 33.6 to 56K.

CCI University


	Skill Assessment - Our new skill assessment feature is designed to set the standard for student evaluation. It allows the student to take a pre-course evaluation and receive immediate results by unit. The student then can go to the specific topics needing further study, based on the automatically customized curriculum. The student or administrator can also compare his or her pre-course assessment with their course scores and their post-course evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the course. As an additional benefit, course mastery levels can be set by the administrator. Unlike other vendors, our skill assessment randomly selects questions for the test and utilizes task-based exercises in addition to multiple choice questions. .
			Bookmarking - Our web-based courses have always had the ability to create a bookmark using the browser. Now, for our students who travel frequently and access our courses from the Internet from multiple locations, bookmarking is now available from within the course. The Exit button sets a bookmark for the student and when they return to that course from the sign-on page, they are automatically returned to the same page, regardless of where they initiated the session. This means you can start taking a course in California, fly to Florida, and pick up at the same screen on a different computer two days later. Ideal for consultants or executives on the move, it's virtual training at its best. Bookmarking capability is included with our network delivery courses as well.

	Enhanced delivery - Bandwidth is the lifeblood of any Internet/Intranet training deployment. As other vendors struggle to offer you a viable web platform, we are moving to the second generation of our HTML delivery platform. If network bandwidth is a concern of yours (and it should be), your best solution is CCI and DPEC. Only CCI and DPEC offers you courses with minimal bandwidth ramifications thanks to our unique lean Web footprint philosophy that creates a separate file for each page. Since our average page size, with graphics, is only 16k, you can avoid the nasty traffic jams inherent with other vendors' multi-megabyte downloads or Java-based delivery systems. Plus, our courses work on Windows 3.1 machines.