The nonprofit organization where I work gets corporate donations of PCs to local charities. While I'm mainly getting P2 systems and starting to get P3 systems, I still have almost 300 P1 systems in my inventory. Most of the smaller organizations just want to do light word processing, printing, and email for which a P1 will work perfectly. Unfortunately all too many people have fallen for Intel's marketing campaign that a new P4 is needed for these tasks and I can't unload these P1 systems taking up space in my storage.
I've put together a P1 with three Matrox Millenium video cards and can really show off what a "lowly" P1 can do as long as it isn't the latest 3D game. When people come in and see me use the three screens at once they are duly impressed. We are having a large fair kind of thing next week with a lot of little charities coming by and getting stuff and I want to put out this demo machine (and can build more if you have an idea).
What I want to do is not to have to sit in front of the demo system and work it since I have my other duties at the same time as this fair. Note that there is no internet connection in the warehouse where the fair is taking place although I can have a server set up. In fact, I just might set up a whole little demo LAN with several P1 workstations and a P1 server. Note that everything has to be Windows based. Also note that memory is not a problem; I have buckets of it. All the P1 boxes are topped out at 128MB.
I've googled for demo scripts but can't find anything. Anyone have any ideas so I can set up something to show off itself? Obviously, there has to be things going on because just sitting there with open windows doesn't impress as much as crap flying around the three screens. While I thought about letting something like Doom 1 or 2 run in demo mode, the point is to show off that office type apps are perfectly happy on a P1, not old games.
I've got plenty of points stored up and the new point splitter makes it easy to divvy them up, so put in your 2 cents and I'll be splitting amoung all the good ideas.
