[john70t]

Dad was at the front of the line for new tech.

-He bought one of the first available VCRs ($1k? $2k?) while mom pinched every single penny to an extreme. This was ironic because our family was in the newspaper for not having a tv at all.
A scrap between my sister and I over the corded VCR remote control led to me chasing her into the bathroom, and her slamming and locking the door.
(I was finally big enough to start winning fights)
The thing is all my fingers, last two phalanges, were in the door jam. I screamed and she opened the door. A black line the height of half a pencil was across them. This went away within a few weeks. Later I looked at the door jam and there was no gap. Maybe 1/8" inch at most. This rightfully should have snapped them all backwards or chopped them off. Darwin has been kind or blind.

-Pop bought a Kaypro II for his education work.
Lots of documents.
I think he used a dot matrix printer or spinning ball, but those laser one were pretty neat.
It looked like a portable desktop box where the keyboard was snapped onto one end with a tiny monochrome screen built in. A precursor to the modern laptop.
I was not to touch. I looked at the manuals and all their gibberish and syntax but never got far into understanding code. I was stuck at the cord going in.