"Search child forums as well" ???

When I first got interested in radio / electronics, in Jr High I was explaining to a friend about some hook up, and was talking about a "male" or "female" connector. My mother, who nothing of this stuff, chastised me about it. I had to show her in my Allied radio catalogue "that is how it's done."

N' yeh, 1963 was just about "when"----I would have been 15