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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Writing befor reading - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 03:31:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 03:31:17 1983
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hpfcla!ajs    Nov 28 08:59:00 1983

Yup, I'm  optimistic  too about my daughter's  chances to read and write
before starting school.  She's six months old and already enjoys banging
on the keyboard at home.

I whipped up a cute little  program (I mean LITTLE,  we're  talking five
minutes) and she'll be growing into it for months.  What it does is take
the last key typed and plot it on the screen BIG, with some beeps  while
it works.  (It helps to have an HP9845,  whose LABEL  statement  already
knows how to draw  ASCII  characters.)  Right now she  hasn't  connected
pressing  any  one  key  with  what  happens,  but  she  gets  a  thrill
nonetheless out of the noises and pictures when she punches keys.

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"