I remember buying a green ticket like they used at the football games and they cost 25¢ when I was in the first grade. I think they went to a dollar when I was a senior.
My first was an Apple 2C. No hard drive. Had and internal 5.25" floppy and an external 5.25" floppy. I taught myself how to program in Applesoft Basic. Wrote my first program to show profit or loss trading stocks with Charles Swab. Then I wrote my second program to monitor diet nutrition using...
I remember running my first real computer with a whopping fast 486 DX processor, 16 megabytes of Ram, running OS2 with that huge 340mb hard drive made by Compaq. Built like a tank. Heavy enough to use for a boat anchor too. Had a 17" monitor with a tube. No LCD screens then.
I had a collectable from Spuds but it's packed away somewhere I'll probably never see it again. The kids my find it one day when they go through my things for the last time.
No. US 25 long before the Blue Ridge Parkway was built. At least I think. It was after the interstate highway system was started but not much of it was completed anywhere in the mountains. I think US 25 runs N & S east of there the Blue Ridge Parkway is. I wanted to do fall colors one year there...
I'm so old I remember traveling on the old two lane roads up through the mountains between FL and Ohio. There were many drop offs going almost straight down on curves. As you would start rounding the cure someone had put up a hand written sign saying "Prepare to Meet Thy God". I'm imagine a lot...
I remember taking a class in technical writing long ago where instead of following the rules of grammar we were taught to break them to draw more attention to what we were going to write. The prof was the author of the text book we were using.
We did too when we had a one acre garden in MO. They we got some super sweet corn and sold that for a $1.50 a dozen. No one complained about the price when they tasted it. It was $6 a dozen in TN at he farmers markets a couple of years back.