Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:40:05 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? Message-ID: <3AAEDA05.70B4FB77@home.com> References: <200103130329.f2D3Tbe08350@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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David Kelly wrote: > > Rob writes: > > My nephew spends just about every waking moment (other than school) in > > front of the > > computer playing games. So this Christmas I thought I'd expand his > > horizons by buying > > him a new Imac with SuSE Linux preinstalled by me. > > Put MacOS X on it two weeks from now. It should have a pretty enough > interface to keep him amused. And a solid foundation underneath. > > My brother started his kids early. They could type before they could > talk. About 8 years old now and still not programming. But for the last > couple of years they have been "writing books." They write the darndest > things which almost make sense. Much like in the moments before waking > when dreams almost make sense. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. I never thought about Mac OS X. I have an an old Power Computing clone here in the basement- I wonder if OS X will run on it? It might be nice to try it out first. Thanks for the advice. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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