I would use VMWare with Zero clients. All the desktops would be virtual - easy to manage, easy to build, easy to change. You can get zero clients that can handle up to 4 monitors and they are relatively inexpensive.
It was a shared drive system...all PETs used the same drives and you had to "lock" the drive to your station before you could use it, or everyone would be writing over other people's work.
Back in the '80s, I was in Highschool. We had Commodore PETs that we used for our computer class, and being a geek/nerd, I was regularly abused by the cool kids. Well...one year, I got back at them. They were taking the computer class I was in. Commodore gear was "smart" - each peripheral had a small CPU and could be programmed. So...I hacked the code for the floppy disk drives (in assembler) and when it saw a file coming across it would look at the user. If it was me or someone I chose, it would work normally. However, for those unlucky few individuals whom I had decided to take revenge, it appeared to be working, but actually it was formatting the floppy disk. Those bullies lost their year end projects and all their work. I have to admit that I felt no guilt about this incident.
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I would use VMWare with Zero clients. All the desktops would be virtual - easy to manage, easy to build, easy to change. You can get zero clients that can handle up to 4 monitors and they are relatively inexpensive.
It was a shared drive system...all PETs used the same drives and you had to "lock" the drive to your station before you could use it, or everyone would be writing over other people's work.
Back in the '80s, I was in Highschool. We had Commodore PETs that we used for our computer class, and being a geek/nerd, I was regularly abused by the cool kids. Well...one year, I got back at them. They were taking the computer class I was in. Commodore gear was "smart" - each peripheral had a small CPU and could be programmed. So...I hacked the code for the floppy disk drives (in assembler) and when it saw a file coming across it would look at the user. If it was me or someone I chose, it would work normally. However, for those unlucky few individuals whom I had decided to take revenge, it appeared to be working, but actually it was formatting the floppy disk. Those bullies lost their year end projects and all their work. I have to admit that I felt no guilt about this incident.