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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.

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