[WEB4LIB] Locking Down a MacIntosh

[thom]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Christopher Jackson wrote:

> 
> We have acquired one MacIntosh that we want to deploy in an otherwise
> Win95 public library computer lab.  It'll run Microsoft Office, Netscape,
> and a Telnet client. 

It will run a lot more than that. You have a web publishing machine. There
is lots of really great shareware. Use a little imagination. Contact
software vendors like BBedit and Adobe and Macromedia and ask to have your
software on the machines for 'free' as a way for the public to really try
out the power of these tools. This would probably be a great service to
these vendors. 

Don't think 'lock down', very negative. Call it your 'digital
storytelling' workstation for the web and encourage folks to unlock their
imagination.

--Thom

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