MS>  MS>    It's a lot easier to effectively secure _one_ 486 than 10,000 
MS>  MS>books!
MS>  MS>    You can even just lock up the 486 by itself in the 
MS> librarian's 
MS>  MS>office, behind a locked door and locked to her table.
MS> 
MS> It's clear you have never had to maintain a computer lab.  I know how 
MS> difficult and EXPENSIVE that is in a college environment; it has to 
MS> be 
MS> worse  in a pre-college setting.
    We're talking apples and oranges.
    I'm talking about securing _one_ computer (the one with the books on its 
HD) that need not be anywhere any student can touch it.  You're talking about 
a computer lab that involves dozens of computers, all of which must be 
accessible to students.
    True, the books on that one locked-in-the-back-room 486 can only be 
accessed through other computers.  But that creates no _additional_ security 
problems if the books are accessible through a network of all the _existing_ 
PCs in the school's computer lab.
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