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Mimeograph
I loved the smell of our worksheets. They were blue and blurry. -
Color TV
My best friend's dad worked at Sears and brought home a color TV. We watched The Wizard of Oz and hid under the blankets when the monkies were flying to find Dorothy. -
Transitor Radio
My dad loved big bands. We listened to Tiajuana Taxi on our reel to reel tape player and huge speakers. -
Transitor Radio
Listened to "Wendy" on transitor radio when we could get service. It was a little sketchy in Mapleton. -
Calculator
Used calculator in 8th grade English -
Classroom computer programed with punchcards
We used punch cards and base 2 to program a simple bowling game. -
eight track tapes
The latest and greatest thing was an 8 track tape player for cars. My dates wanted to just play their 8 track tape players. It didn't last very long. -
Video tapes & VCR
We would get a big group together in college and rent a VCR player for $5.00 and a tape for about the same. -
Automatic erase for typewriter
Incharge of Women's Conference and sending out letters to speakers, so cool to have erase. The typewriter also had some computer aspects. Then we used a video writer. -
CD player
Went to Indiana to graduate school and some of the students had CDs instead of tapes. Sooo Cool. -
Computer
We bought a computer for $1600, saved our marriage. Typing papers were so much easier.
