[geeks] Kids and computers...

[bill pointon]

sambo -- try to find a ti99-4/a with a speech synthesizer cartridge -- 
the favorite machine when mine were 2-3 years - or there are apple IIs 
available cheap and even  emulators although i havent tried any in 
ages ----  and you can still find tons of cool educational kids software 
for the II and IIe -- much of it for free  --- role playing games - 
strategy - my fave was treasure cave with my kids for a while when they 
were getting older (5?) -- we mapped that cave so many times -- billp

On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 07:37 , s at avoidant.org wrote:

> "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
>
>> Oh, you mean educational software!  ;-)  there are lots of creative
>> things a pre-schooler can do for fun with any text editor or any
>> graphics editor....
>
>
> Yeah, he loves painting-type software, but he's three, not thirteen.
> Text editors are fun for a few minutes, but don't compare to dinosaurs
> knocking down buildings and eating books when you get the answers wrong.
> I'd love to recompile these things and run 'em on linux or BSD, but
> they're not open source, and I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer.
>
> Realistically, I'd love to go out and buy Reader Rabbit for *nix, but it
> just ain't happenin'.
>
>
>> Why when I was a kid I was happy to play with static physical toys that
>> had far more limitations imagination-wise than any graphical 
>> interface!  ;-)
>
>
> Yeah, me too. But I didn't get my grubby little paws on a computer at
> home 'till the Commodore 64 (which I still have, BTW) If Nahi's that far
> ahead of where I was then, I can't wait to see what he's doing at 35. I
> want to give him every advantage i can. I realize windows isn't the
> biggest advantage, but it's a start.
>
>
> ---sambo
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