You had one MacDonalds actually in your town? We had a Carroll's, the predecessor to Burger King & it was 20 miles away. When I was in college, the computer (the school had only one) was a collection of boxes the size of refrigerators. Your computer "homework" was a stack of punched cards. In the math bldg. they had a calculator for the students use. It had a modern calculator type keyboard & display, but was attached to a processing unit the size of a loaf of bread. All it would do is regular arithmetic & sq rts. On my first job, we had to use a mechanical calculating machine that had buttons you pressed to input your data, then you turned the crank, and after much clunking, you read the answer on little metal wheels with numbers printed on them. It didn't do decimal places, so you had to figure out where the decimal point went. BTW, gas was 30 cents / gallon