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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: eabDad who wrote (41879)	1/2/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Don't know --- my son turned 4 today. He plays a few games right now. He can get a new computer when he gets a job ...

To: eabDad who wrote (41879)	1/2/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

Z, I don't consider it a dilemma, nor a pisser, I consider it an investment in their future. Yes, my kids have their own computer. I bought it for them last Christmas, 1997, a Dell, with all the bells and whistles (PII 300 MHz, 56K modem, USB bus, 3d graphics accellerator, etc.), and I have not had to upgrade it, nor do I expect to have to do so in the foreseeable future. They use it for homework, they use it for play, they use it to make creations, they use it to research on the net, they use it to communicate with their friends on-line. You can get a comparable computer this week for maybe $1,500 less, with DVD drive, and if you already have a monitor, for even less. Where we live, D.C. metro area, high school kids are making $60K per year working in such fields as HTML, the computer companies send shuttles to pick them up after school because the kids can't drive. My older (age 13) is in the school web club, and is taking a couple of classes that are computer technology oriented. All the grammar schools here in Fairfax have computers in the classrooms. These computers are provided, at least in part, by local computer companies that need the pool of potential employees.