IBM and Rubbermaid's Little Tikes toy division are teaming up to produce a toddler-proof PC geared toward the daycare center and preschool market. The Young Explorer machine looks like a "plastic space pod" with the keyboard and monitor built into a colorful desk unit that houses a bench seat for two. But the insides aren't kid stuff - the IBM PC 300 GL computer runs on a Pentium processor and contains an internal CD-ROM drive, 16 megabytes of memory, a two-gigabit hard drive and a 14-inch color monitor. "When you put a 2-1/2-year-old on a computer they can pull wires," says one daycare center owner. "The children can't mess this one up too much." (Wall Street Journal 23 Apr 98)