easu021@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg) (12/13/89)
OK, I have just been put in charge of Amiga product for a new
computer dealer on the West Coast. The store is called ComputerCity, they
have a huge financial base (Inacomp & Mitsubishi), and the stores are
enourmous. We sell full lines of PC's, MAC's, Amiga's, Sun's, SPARC's,
ect... The building includes an Auditorium, 2 huge video walls (9 30"
monitors each), and a $40,000 giant amiga slide for the kiddies. We
currently have 12 Amigas on the floor from the A500 through the A2500 /030.
So here is my problem. With so many hardrive equiped Amigas on the
floor it is imposible to supervise them all. I need to figure out a system
to meet the following needs:
1. Allow unsupervised customers to run software from the drives.
2. Insure that nothing is written to the drives by customers and
insure that customers don't have access to any distructive
functions, including moving drawers, and access to the CLI.
3. Allow sales staff to have full read/write access to the drives
including the CLI.
4. I am particularly woried about advance users who like to prove
there prowess on our drives. I need to keep the software
location and execution consistant for my sales staff.
I have a few ideas of my own, involving the Lock command and some ANSI
sequences in the "startup-sequence" file and in some directory names.
If anyone has any suggestions either to completely or partly solve my
problems, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
-Jason Goldberg-
CompuerCity SuperStore