# Without saying your age, what's something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn't understand?

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> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> I remember cheap pocket-sized calculating “machines” stamped out of steel which had strips of numbers running up and down, with sawteeth on one edge of each strip.

I don’t recognize what you’re describing; but I do remember the plastic clicker devices that you could take to the store with you to keep track of how much $ worth of merchandise you were buying.  
[![](http://image.timepassagesnostalgia.com/watermarked/imagesl0/l029adderx3.jpg) ](http://image.timepassagesnostalgia.com/watermarked/imagesl0/l029adderx3.jpg)

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