First Computer

Sadie and Valerie got their first computer a few days ago, but there’s nothing new to them about it.  I brought home the machine they would use at the office, which is an ancient 386 or 486 (I forget which) with DOS, a bunch of DOS games, and a keybanger program.  So far the keybanger is all they are able to use.  Sadie doesn’t grok the idea of differences between the keys, and pressing different ones to do different things.

They’ve been having a blast with it available there, but Valerie likes to play with the control on the monitor, decreasing contrast and brightness to zero or close enough to make no difference.  Silly kid.

It also stays on all the time, with the monitor off at night, which saves us from having to reset the BIOS each time it’s turned on, and incidentally makes a nice source of white noise in their room.  They seem to sleep better with white noise.

I’d love to find something between the limited keybanger and the simplest of the games.  That doesn’t require a mouse, as the machine is mouseless.

1. Soon enough she will Grok it, And before you know it she will be sharing water with some boy.  Sigh they grow so fast.

   Posted by wayne  on  01/28  at  12:07 AM  from  ohio
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