Remember when...

[smilingcat]

learning to drive my younger sister's CJ5 jeep with manual transmission with my dad siting next to me and telling me more gas and don't dump the clutch... and my sister sneering, snickering and laughing at me. She wanted the CJ5 cause that's what Mindy was driving in Mork & Mindy. I was car free till the 80's .

Oh I also remember NYC subway tokens were 35 cents. I was in college then.

And we weren't allowed to have even a simple four function calculator in exams. Well, back then simple four function calculators weren't all that simple. TI-50 calculator was one of the first scientific calculator. Initial price back in '72 or was it '73 was around $500.00.

I used to know how to use the slide ruler. But haven't seen one since then.

TVs had four available channels even though the dial said 2 through 13. We had ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. oh TV screens had rounded corners too. I also remember taking vacume tubes (valves for brits and aussies) to the grocery store to check if the tubes had burnt out. It was trial and error to see which tube had burnt out.

Life seemed simpler back then. And I wished to have a personal computer back then, before Apple II/IIe. Before Commodore 64 or even VIC20. First video game I saw was pong and thought wow that's really cool you can play games on your TV.

And yes my term paper was all typed out. Editor used was smilingcat-editor not word. not word-perfect. not open office...

[PamNY]

I remember (and miss) clothes hanging on clotheslines. Apparently I'm not the only one, as there is (or was) "right to hang out clothes" legislation in North Carolina:

http://www.news-record.com/blog/53964/entry/64277