10 Mar
2000
10 Mar
'00
10:51 a.m.
It's just that most kids don't want to play with a print server! ;)
Seriously, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that the current crop of
educational materials available for kids (which are, IMO, vastly superior
to their predecessors) *do* require a pentium. I think the requirements
for the last Reader Rabbit CD I bought was a P75 with 16 megs of ram.
I was a little shocked at how much these games require, and have been
building/distributing lower pentium-class machines to other kids in the
area for a year or so now. I get the parts cheap/free, and it has the
potential to make a drastic difference in a child's (and the entire
family's) life.
Aaron
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Allison J Parent wrote:
<Old Pentium class computers make excellent kids
computers. But if you're
Whats wrong with an old 386 or 486 box? I have a 386sx/16 running W95
and despite what you might believe it's a decent quick and dirty
printserver to a HP4L. Another 286sx/25 has a ISA based logic probe
and analog card in it. I have two 486DX2/66 one running NT4/SP4 on 4.3gb
and the other running Linux (RH5.2) on 500mb, both are a kick to use and
perform surprizingly well. Both support SVGA 1mb, have networking and
CDrom. Don't put down those older and often free to cheap 386/486 boxen.
When did pentium become the required cpu?
Allison