I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.
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Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
My father taught only math.
I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.