Kids computers

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 18:51:31 2000

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
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> 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?
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> Allison
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