From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 13 18:39:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A0F37B73A for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010314023953.NGHY2254.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:39:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAEDA05.70B4FB77@home.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:40:05 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? References: <200103130329.f2D3Tbe08350@grumpy.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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