I'd be a sliderule jockey for an engineering firm. That's almost what I ended up doing, anyway, only computer programming was hella more fun.

ITYM wit.soul = brevity ;

Wow. Kids. Spoiled. You had a keyboard and a monitor. My first computer consisted of a switchboard with ten sliders that each controlled a gang of ten switches. You connected the switches together with wires that you cut yourself, to make AND and OR and NAND and NOR and XOR gates. Yes, the computer came with a spool of copper wire, and a wire stripper. More basic than BASIC. :laugh: The computer also had ten light bulbs that you connected to the switches. A very low resolution monitor! The switches doubled as memory, so it had effectively a 10 bit RAM. It was powered by a humongous 9 volt battery, the size of a hip flask. When I move to the States, I had to figure out how to wire it up to a DC power supply because I couldn't find those kinds of monster batteries in the States. So that those ten power hogging light bulbs wouldn't run down the battery too quickly, there was a single push button that you had to use to turn on the finished circuit. Oh, and I had to put it together, myself. :cool: You used it to wire up cool programs like "if the humidity is high" (slide switch 1) AND "the barometer is falling" (slide switch 2) THEN "it will rain" (lightbulb 1). I even taught it to play tic-tac-toe. That was in 1970. The computer cost about DM100 (about $50, at the time). I've tried to find a picture of it online, but I guess they don't make it anymore. :((