I appear to have been born in a gap between most of the rest of you ..... meaning I was born in 1964.
I never had or used a slide rule at school, and neither did we have ink wells, biros were ok even at primary shchool from about grade 3 or 4 onwards.
There was no such thing as a computer at primary school, and at high school we had a PDP-11 (card reader data entry only, lead pencil not punch cards - if you've done that you know how bad it can be)
There was also a "compact" 4k desktop type computer, whose brand escapes me at present, it was a rather unusual brand, but similar to early Tandy, etc units.
We had bottled milk deivered in Bisbane, but on weekends up to Gympie (reasonably large town) to visit my Aunt & Uncle the milk there (in town) was still delivered fresh to your jug / cannister / whatever.
Mum and Dad still had some 78's around, and of course we had a turntable that played them - does anyone know what the hell the 16 speed was ever used for?? Apart from making Elvis, Frank Sinatra, etc, sound very weird - which I did often.
Dogs roamed the streets freely - our street had 12 houses, and 14 dogs - they hung out mostly in one large group, with a couple of "outsiders" - and no one got bitten (except dogs) and no dog catchers ran around trying to take them away to have them put down.
I remember at primary school when the price of a sausage roll went from 5c to 8c in one jump - parents screamed!
I remember when lollies were at most 1c each, you could get a stomach ache for 30c, if you had 30c that is. Those red raspbery lollies were still 3 for a cent .. ggez I ate a lot of those. Rainbow monsters were the dearest - 3 for 2 cents, how shocking! Around this time I think I got 50c a week pocket money, and was damned pleased to get that too.
Good days .... good memories!