[geeks] Kids and Computers

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>My 9 yo daughter is on probation at 
> school for "customizing" the pc's in the computer lab.  Once more
> and  she is banned.

Oh, a definite gonna be geek. I think that happened to me first in
grade 6 when I tried to open up the Apple ][e and fix it, without
really knowing what I was doing. I only broke 1 thing, but after that
they were very fearful. God what I would have given for Google and
the web back then. 


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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James L. Rice" <jrice at texoma.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Kids and Computers


> My kids get their own pc when they turn one.  I have some preschool
>  keyboards (abcdef not qwerty) and I image the hd with ghost.  If
> it gets  csrewed, I restore it.  I also tell them that if they
> touch mine (Sun,  sgi, NeXT , BeBox, Mac or PC) I will break their
> little fingers off and  feed them to the cat.  By the time my kids
> are 8-9 years old, they can  reinstall the os themselves anyway. 
> My 9 yo daughter is on probation at  school for "customizing" the
> pc's in the computer lab.  Once more and  she is banned.
> 
> James
> 
> http://home.texoma.net/~jrice/
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