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We'll always tell our grandkids "You know, in OUR day we had to WAIT for the computers."

Kids: "Really? How long did you wait?"

Grandpa: "Oh, a loooong time. And we used to roast marshmallows over the hot servers!"

[marktwain]

"You know, in OUR day we had to WAIT for the computers."

I am going to tell the Grandkids that I was on a *party* line, where several families shared 1 land line, which was managed by a person known as an "operator". There were *no* computers, and *no* cell phone. No LEDs, No satellites, No GPS.

I will brag to them that I was involved in the program that *created* GPS.

[Nateman]

Yep. In the old days we had to flip memory bits manually with a magnet.