Now the Kids Really Need a Computer…

Once upon a time, I bought a bunch of Magic School Bus and other Microsoft home software for my nephews, courtesy of the insanely great Microsoft discount available to me at the time.  One of those nephews turned 18 in Spetember.

I’d queried them about whether any of those remained around, or available to get back if they’d passed them along when outgrown, but as far as they knew the CDs were long gone.

Today my sister dropped off five of them that she found somewhere obscure: Magic School Bus Dinosaurs, Animals, Solar System, Inside The Earth, and Ocean.  Woohoo!

Sadie loves the shows, which we have three episodes of on one DVD (all three are about insects), and of which we’d love to get more.  Presumably she’ll enjoy the software, even if it takes a little growing into.

If all else fails, I can let her use my Pentium 200, which is the second, unused computer at my desk.  I fired it up a couple times long enough to network it and get it seeing the internet and copy some files, then that was it.  It’s there for archival and testing purposes.  Well, and I was thinking of using it for playing music, as it has superior sound (believe it or not) and did have superior speakers, but it has more limited space and can’t run iTunes.  For that matter, they can still have a couple of DOS keybanger and game machines, but use Magic School Bus on that one, which runs Windows 98.  We’ll see.

Posted by on 01/09 at 06:50 PM

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