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d a big eraser.</p><p id="1c87">The ten-pound Sears catalog was the best.</p><p id="6de9">My first computer was a Tandy 1000 that ran on a 5 1/4-inch floppy.</p><p id="c5e2">My first camera was a Pentax K1000. Well, my first was actually one of those crappy little Kodak things.</p><p id="5275">My first “cell” phone was in a bag about the size of a small cement block and weighed about the same.</p><p id="74fc">The list is long, as some of you know.</p><p id="8610">And so, here I am today. All I need to navigate life as we know it today is condensed to a 10.2-inch screen on my iPad.</p><p id="48eb">Shop, talk, write, bank, buy, and much more are all there on a touch screen.</p><p id="e665">How the heck did we ever survive without all this technology?</p><p id="5b31">In truth, some of us understand things were just fin

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Your life on a 10.2-inch screen…

I’m 73. I grew up with rotary phones that connected you to a live operator, who then connected you to whom you wanted to talk. Party lines? Yes, you shared a line with others.

Black and white TV with a couple of channels. Fuzzy images with fuzzier sound.

I took typing classes in high school on a mechanical typewriter with no spell check or “file save” function…(WTF!)

High school math class consisted of a pencil, paper, and a big eraser.

The ten-pound Sears catalog was the best.

My first computer was a Tandy 1000 that ran on a 5 1/4-inch floppy.

My first camera was a Pentax K1000. Well, my first was actually one of those crappy little Kodak things.

My first “cell” phone was in a bag about the size of a small cement block and weighed about the same.

The list is long, as some of you know.

And so, here I am today. All I need to navigate life as we know it today is condensed to a 10.2-inch screen on my iPad.

Shop, talk, write, bank, buy, and much more are all there on a touch screen.

How the heck did we ever survive without all this technology?

In truth, some of us understand things were just fine back then.

More articles on Medium from this writer here.