On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:16:12 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:



7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas?

$1.00 / gal

79 cents a gallon on Long Island, NY in 1998 or thereabouts.


Ah, you kids. How about 19.9 at the Merit station in 1962 when I
started driving. The Esso station across the street was 21.9
Esso was part of Standard Oil, later Exxon.



9. How were things done before computers?

What things?

Mechanical adding machines, then electronic calculators. The first
4-function electronic calculator I saw cost approx. $100.

Perce

Mine was huge with a CRT that showed 4 lines. $400, a year later $300,
a couple more years later a TI was $79