On or about 20 Jun 2001, Simeon Johnston is alleged to have said: > "Troy.A Johnson" wrote: > > > Cool! Thanks Bill, this is interesting stuff. I was planning on making this > > machine into a play thing for my son (17 months, but _loves_ to bang on > > the keyboard and move the mouse). I may consider using an old x86 machine > > for this task instead... > > Try out Babysmash. It locks the machine until a special key command is used. > It > displays random objects on the screen in various colors. Pretty cool. The > key > command would be very hard to press acidentally. > Works on all MacOS's as far as I know. Been a while since I've used it > though. I just hacked together a little ncurses program that displays a big letter on the screen. It would have been easier to do by just running an xterm with a montrous font, but Dad was a little bored when he started coding. :) My 3 year old always asks to "type the letters" and has been for almost a year now; we're not worried about reading, since the correlation between what he types and what he says has been high since he was about 15-18 mos. It's funny how when Mom and Dad spend a lot of time on the phone or looking at the "infernal screen" how it's mirrored by the little ones!