Re: Your childhood days with Apple 2 days...

From	Speccie <someone@somewhere.com>
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Subject	Re: Your childhood days with Apple 2 days...
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Date	2021-10-04 08:58 +0100

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YK wrote:

> When I was in school the computer sat on the top of the neck and the
> printer was either a BIC ball point or a Ticonderoga #2. Ball point
> delete button was nil and a red rubber one on the Ticonderoga.

Ball point pen? They weren’t easily available when I went to school. We used either a pencil or a fountain pen...

> I paid $85 for my first non-scientific calculator 8 years after I
> graduated from high school, when I returned to college. It was 1/2 price
> close out at Radio Shack. I was about the size of an iPad mini and had
> (ready for this?) rechargeable replaceable AA batteries!. I did use it
> for almost 20 years after I bought it.

As they hadn’t been invented when I was at school, we were taught how to use Logarithm tables and a slide rule...

Cheers - Ewen

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