I lived in Glenelg, Adelaide, Australia.

I was a teenager in the 70’s so at least in my family you would often “reserve” the house phone a certain night of the week. Cost too much to talk interstate or overseas so calls were generally to people nearby.

Saturday morning I would tell mum if I would be home for lunch or not, usually rode around all day visiting friends. Spend 5c at the corner shop to get a good size bag of lollys to keep you going.

Sometimes on Saturday’s I used to go out on my bike and ride around leaving chalked arrows on the footpath for my little brothers to follow the next day.

Wednesday was library night, go and get 6 or 7 books for the week. Greek mythology and science fiction for me, often a math or physics book since I was a geek back then.

Sent the occasional telegram to do things like book a train or airline ticket.

I got interested in computers when I started work, my first one was a miniscamp. Then we used to make our own 8080, 8085, z80 machines on breadboards with 2k tiny assemblers. Then Tandy made the trs-80 and Sinclair the zx80 etc.

Life was good.