Glenn wrote:
> Chisel?  You had chisels?  We had to etch our stones with
> sticks - and hope we finished before the stick wore out...
> or we had to go off and find another!

Stones?  You guys had STONES??

HA!  We had to break sticks with our bare hands and lay
them in a line on the ground, then run back and forth --
UPHILL BOTH WAYS -- and *memorize* where the sticks
were and where they weren't!!

AND THEN, there was no computer!!  We had to do the
binary calculations *in our heads*!!  And if you forgot
any part of the sequence?  We had to run it again!!

And if it SNOWED!!  Let me tell you about when it snowed...

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