oh, I'm embarrassed to even say

some people had an atari. LOL

hmmm we used a cassette recorder and a slide projector to make a slide show to music!

We also read a popular children's story and added in musical sounds with real instruments

My family had an Atari, Sega, and Nintendo 64.....

In that order I think

We used to bang rocks together...

LOL ... WHAT childhood technology?! OK, my family was pretty well-off, we did have Atari video game that plugged into TV.

by the time I was leaving for college, my parents bought a computer, an Apple 2C I believe. Before that (and still) they have a man. typwrt

VIC 20 and Commodore 64's AWESOME

I'm old - didn't even get Atari until I was adult!!! We barely had black & white TV with antenna you had to adjust daily!

we *didn't* have technology in the schools!

I remember in HS when the first HP sci. calc. showed up.. it was magical!

Do you think technology has the "awe" factor we felt when new things came out?

we had sticks: tinker toys & legos, B&W TB

my mother got her first calculator in 1973 ish. it was so expensive because it did scientific notation. she needed it for sadistics class

Heh, we had Pong. Was a white board with several knobs on it. Plugged into TV. Looked like this one: www.jakeworld.org/JakeWo...

I had two friends that had apple computers. At the time that was a BIG deal.

That was back in 5th grade and I am thirty now if you want to do that math.

I had a TANDY with a green screen Anyone have one of those?

got a used TRS-80 model I in 1982 with a gray screen

Do ya one better - not only had a Heathkit TV & pong, but also first Commodore 64 & TI-994a units...

hmm a monochrome monitor and 5 1/2 floppy for computer math..that was the extent of our technology We've have come a long way since then

Our first computer was also a Tandy.

queenjaci: Indeed!

in good & bad ways: todays computer gigabites of ram. 80s computer 32K of ram. documents edited & printed just fine in 32K of ram...

omg: remembers that

has another odd one: **glass** 2 liter soda bottles

Our first computer lab consisted of the Apple 2E with the green colored screens. Computer class was making pics with letters.

Anyone remember doing research and having to use the micro film...searching all the little squares for the article you needed?

yes, hated it