23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
5:10 a.m.
No ... THEY at ages 10 and 8, recognized they wanted/needed a REAL computer.
That's when their mom bought 'em a PC'AT clone.
When they were here, which was every other weekend for most of the time until
the older boy was nearly 11, and at which time he came to live with me, they
had Apple]['s, a Commodore 128 that they'd once brought with them, but never
used, and a range of PC-types that I used here. I simply set each of them up
with a workstation and an account on the server. They played the usual games,
and dinked around. They also learned about formatting their reports for
school, though that was some time later.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc(a)conman.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once
stated:
>
> Well, what I know is that my kids had a C64 before they were both in
> elementary school and had outgrown it by the time they were 10. I didn't
make
> that choice, having been divorced from their
mother, but it was apparent
to
> her that they needed something more capable.
They had PC/AT's when they
were
10. Those
were not great, but at least they were adequate.
So Richard, if you had the choice, which computer would you have gotten
your kids? And how did they outgrow the C64?
-spc (Did they want to run Unix on it or something?)