II's are still useful...

[insaneboy]

particularly when you have a small child. Good way to practice his math Still have to go though what software I have to find all the age appropriate stuff and organize it a bit better.

[Byrd]

Get him on that oscilloscope too Does he like using the IIc over more modern computers?

I'm planning on getting my SE/30 out for my daughter in a couple of years (she is 8 months old at the moment!), loading it with every education B&W app I can find from the Macintosh Garden.

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Gotta love having a rugger working in the "office" with you, using an older machine. Great pic!

When my son was a toddler, We'd set him up at his own "desk" using four file folder boxes and a 2' x 4" cutoff from a plywood sheet. I'd be woprking on "Pooter" while he worked on the V-Tech Typing Tutor I'd bought to learn to type while waiting for the $25k Gerber Sprint/750/Fonts package to arrive. We had to wait for the 750mm/30"

The ironic part about the setup was that the $50 + - $10 V-Tech keyboard had a muuuch better sloped, tactile feedback KBD than the $15k Sprint Console.

Mushy split-fork Mechanical KeySwitches soldered flat onto the huge PCB, if you can believe that.

[insaneboy]

heh, only exposure to a 'modern' computer is the powerbook G4 I hooked up to the electric piano(garageband piano samples are way better than the ones in the piano, nice Korg, but it's around 25 years old) hoping to pick up a macbook one day, that way we can run the piano lessons in garageband

[ianj]

When I was that age, I was using those same setups in the computer lab at school (my class was one of the last to enter the educational system before Apple IIs went away). I have a IIe and a IIGS today, but unfortunately I'm at a loss as to what to use them for, so they generally just sit on shelves and get looked at.

[insaneboy]

when I was his age the school I went to had *a* C64, we moved and the new school had none (don't even think there was one in the office actually). hand written report cards and mimeographs! middle school had a computer lab. half was Apple IIe other half was PCjr. I played on the PCjrs more often they had color monitors and police quest By that time I had a mac plus to use at home. freshman year at highschool had a computer lab, but it was terminals.. changed schools and sophomore year Apple IIes, replaced Junior year by Mac Classics (I still had my Plus, half way through senior year I got a PB 160). There were 8 classics all localtalked so lots of study halls wasted playing Minotaur, Spectre Spaceward HO! and Nettrek.