Not to age myself too much...
but, I remember going next door to the neighbors house to watch the first episode of the Flintstones "In Color". They were the first on the block to have a color television set
I remember my Mom coming home from night school (she was a teacher, working on her Master's at night) back about 1968... She was all excited and babbly, going on about how "one day...in the future, we would all have computers on our desks, and that they would all be connected together and sharing information"... what a crackpot she was
(she died in '73, otherwise I would be waging the biggest copyright/patent fight you ever did see...although, she had gottn the idea at some lecture or another...don't know all the details, just remember her going on about it)
I remember the first calculators, had held big ass things, cost a bunch of money, wasn't but a couple of years or so before they only cost a few bucks.
Remember seeing my first "computer terminal", senior year of High School... It was hooked in to Hofstra University's computer... Big ass keyboard, you entered everything, sent ity and it printed out the results on a big teletype type printer...
Remember in the Navy, having some HP scientific calculator that would let you run a fairly simple program... Fucking thing cost 5-6 thousand dollars and they had it chained to the desk with a lock and key system. Also had a keypunch machine and card reader and such still.... (although we also, in 76 had the AN/UYK20 computer system, which is comparable to an IBM34..lots of things the government was ahead on, of course...our system had a 4B a year development budget)
After I got out of the Nav, first job, was on a burroughs terminal, biga ass keyboard, no screen.... blue OCK keys... You enetered the order...waited around, it printed it for you and you got to see if you got it right