[LMB] OT: Generation Change, was Fun

[Walter Bushell]

On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:17 AM, lfundis wrote:

> But they were not yet common until much later, either in the sense  
> of almost everyone having at least one such card or in the sense of  
> almost all stores accepting them as payment. And ATMs weren't  
> invented until the 1970s. (I first used one in 1974, and they were  
> very new then.)

Ah, I remember those days, if you didn't have cash by 3PM Friday, you  
lived on what was in your wallet.