Without revealing your age....

[Sancho]

30. ok..this is fun...

- Adjusting the antenna, or even turning a motored directional antenna on top of a tall pole, to get one of three channels: ABC, NBC, or CBS

- Using a slide rule for math computations in chemistry class

- Handing everyone a fan at church or some indoor events like school plays because there was no air conditioning

- keeping bottles of "white out", memeograph paper, ribbons, a dictionary, a ruler in a box in order to type term papers and reports

- trilled to get a 9-volt, AM only transistor radio for a Christmas present, and using it to hear that Kennedy had been shot while at school (on WTMA in Charleston, SC)

- building a concrete bomb shelter in the back yard, and stocking it with canned food in case of an nuclear war with Russia

- several file folders of paper maps from everywhere I traveled, charts from sailing trips, and booked street maps of cities; but you could get "Triptics" printed from AAA!

- Actually looking forward to the update column of World Book Encyclopedia to come every year or so

- separate black and white waiting rooms at the dentist office

- an entire bookcase in my office of decks of computer cards with programs to be read on a mainframe, and buying an Apple II+ for $1300 in 1978 with 4K (yes; thousands) of memory and writing programs in Basic! No word procession or spreadsheets - but VERY exciting!!

- I owned an Apple II+, IIE, IIC, Osborn I, TRS80, and Franklin 1200...and one of the first Macs!! Years after I left college

- Driving most cars without automatic transmissions and no air conditioning; also a school bus and dump truck - all with clutches. I still have a manual pick up truck!

- lawn darts, whirly gigs, incredible edibles, cap guns, pong