(July 30, 2019 at 1:06 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Party lines?
Phone booths?
Pet Rocks?
Paper tape (yellow) for computers?
Bubblegum cigarettes?
Vacuum tubes?
All of those except the tape. I have used punch cards for FORTRAN programming, though.
I remember going down to the Thrifty Drug store with a bag of tubes from the TV and testing them on their machine.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.