Slide rules; telex messages; paper airplane tickets; zero security at airports; people smoking on airplanes; Traveler’s Checks; Visa not accepted in many places; typing pools; hand-written weekly technical reports from the field; photo documentation on film; inter office envelopes; two or three weeks vacation where you never called in and didn’t worry about work once; new company car every two years; you never got a useless robot answering your phone call; you were never told Press 1 for Spanish or Press 2 for English; you could walk in west coast towns and cities and not think you were in Bombay or Peking.
To list just a few memories of my first work years in the early 70s. Of course some things never change — beautiful women everywhere you look. But what has changed is they no longer look back. ;>(
When I was an engineering manager, I kept my slide rule (Post Versalog) and CRC Math Tables on my back desk. One of my young engineers saw them, asked what they were, and when I told him, he sneered at me and said, “Oh, yeah? Just what did you do with them?”
I told him, “We put a man on the moon. What have you done with your PC?”
He walked out of my office with his head bowed and his mouth shut.
“beautiful women everywhere you look”
Now they dress, act, and talk like truckers.