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List:       classiccmp
Subject:    Re: Commodore Haul
From:       Vintage Computer Festival <vcf () siconic ! com>
Date:       2003-12-31 23:52:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0312311546530.17902-100000 () siconic ! com
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 ghldbrd@ccp.com wrote:

> business like that.  A 64 system and one of those disks would be a great
> way for kids to get hooked on computers.

I gave each of my oldest nephews (ages 7, 10 and 15) a fully loaded Apple
//e or Apple //c+ for Christmas.  They were pretty thrilled.  I spent
Christmas Eve and half of Christmas Day teaching the 10 year old how to
program his own video game (he wants to write games for his PlayStation 2
and make a "million dollars" :)  We ended up with a pretty cool little
game.  As time goes on I'll be introducing them to ever more challenging
concepts.  I figure by the time they graduate high school they'll be
ready to enter a Masters level university program ;)

If you always thought that vintage computers would be the best tools to
teach kids with, you were certainly right.

> Then again, as all the programming jobs go overseas . . . .

I'm doing my part to stem the tide, but I'm just one man in this
burgeoning nation of idiots.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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