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I started in the 101st Airborne, where we had towed M102 105mm guns. We had this big green fiberglass box in the back of our storage conex that just sat there. For an IG inspection my sergeant made us pull it out of the shed, so I asked him what it was. "The FADAC. It's on our TO & E so we have to show we have it." Never saw one out of the box. 
The Canadians (we did a training exchange with them) were already using TI programmable calculators to do their firing data, while we were just fielding the new BCS system, which cost a ton of money. (A single connecting cable was $25k.) 
Then they sent me to Germany where we had M109 A3's. I wasn't too far behind you, though. I also learned with the "slide rules" and tables of data. 
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