In The 80's
 

Okay... WARNING... for those who might be too spiritual to see this... just walk away.

No cursing.
No scantily clad women.

Just a hilarious spoof song on the 80's. (Lyrics Below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9OEmUr0F8

LYRICS:
You kids think - your gear is iconic
But Im gon take you back to see some real electronics
gimme a beige PC, green text, black screen
and 64 kB of memory (thats plenty!)
forget a phone that fits in your pocket
I keep my phone in a bag in my car (thats how we rock it!)
who needs a camcorder, that size of my hand?!
you know I wanna look like a news cameraman!
(I wanna perch it on my shoulder...like an overweight parrot!)

my disks were floppy but my hair was stiff
and all my stickers were scratch and sniff!

In the 80s! If it was big it was good!
80s! My TV was wood!
80s! My car was shaped like box!
80s! Back when everything rocked!

youre tellin me mp3s oh theyre so great
Id rather push Rewind; and sit and wait!
my first VCR cost me five grand
VHS is best! (Im a Beta Man!)

16-button controllers really make me sick!
gimme one red button and a joystick!

In the 80s! the bigger the betta
80s! I had an antenna!
80s! my TV was thick
80s! we didnt point and click
80s! I had a big boom box
80s! I calculated with my watch
80s! My mix tapes were hot
80s! Back when everything rocked!

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Woah... Where did they get the Delorean?

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Love me some 80's hair bands...LOL this is too funny

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Anybody remember the digital watch craze ?

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They guy putting the mouse in his mouth... funny. Spoofing on the rockers that would bite the heads off of mice etc. So funny.

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Oh yeah... Definitely.

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Thats so funny! I recognize all that stuff. (I assume they probably came up w/ the Dilorian from back to the future). As a young teenager, I even had a poster of Cinderella on my wall, that looked like those weirdos!:banghead

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I know it was a little pre -80s like around 77 but I remember the punk and new wave craze like The B-52s and The Clash and such they were in the 80s as well.

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I remember paying almost a full month of US Navy E-4 pay for a VHS player in 1983, was around $800.00. I paid more for my sony walkman than I did for my iPhone.

Below is my very first computer:

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/trs80pc1-expansion.jpg

With the dock-printer, cassette interface and 8k ram upgrade it ran around $500.00

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The B-52's are still around and playing in Rhode Island tomorrow. Funny, they look almost the same, maybe they are aliens....

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My first computer was a C64. I had stacks and stacks of games on 5-1/4" floppy disc.

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Ahhh memories!

My first computer:
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...rs_/cosby2.jpg

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I remember playing a game on our first computer that you had to type out detailed instructions to. Like turn right, go east, open the door, go up the stairs, walk to the table....you walk through a house and woods. That's about all I remember of that game. LOL!

But that would have been late 70's.

I remember swatch watches were big. Hair was bigger. And leg-warmers were everywhere. :lol

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They were mostly on legs weren't they? :)

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Ah yes, text adventures, Planet Fall and Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy were my faves

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I considered both the C64 and the TI99 at the time, the biggest factor that influenced me to the TRS-80 handheld was the portability issue, I needed something I could take on patrol as space is limited on a submarine.

Then a year or so later a buddy of mine bought one of these to bring along, the 1983 compaq portable:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/compaqside.jpg

Set him back like $4000.00, I was indeed green with envy.

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Now THIS looks like it could be good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1IpPpB3iWI

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that Compaq luggable was my pride and joy from 1985-86. Westinghouse had just introduced their APL (advanced Program loader) where you could actually use a portable computer as interface to Programmable Logic Controllers. IT WAS Da BOMB!

Our PLC's were playing catch-up but our program loader rocked the PLC world and was a users best friend. Overlay software was somewhere around a whopping $1100.00---ouch!, and very cleverly encriypted to only allow an installation if some kind of electronic fingerprint got moved off one computer --back onto the floppy and then you could install the software on a different box.

I hurriedly had to catch a plane and the airlines wanted me to check that miserable heavy thing into the luggage rather than have to study what this thing might be able to do in the seating area:ursofunny. Talk about the horror of seeing a dear work friend abused, I looked out an airplane window and saw some baggage handling monster grab and jerk the case off the transport cart and sent the keyboard swinging around the tarmac by its little acordian connector cable...then they were clueless as to how to place it back into position so it arrives with rope and tape holding the keyboard onto the case.:sad:sad:sad

Even though I apologized to my Compaq luggable all the way to the hotel, I doubt it ever could forgive me.

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(Breaks out singing...) Those were the days. :)

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And you knew who you were thennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!

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RICK GRENDAU..something like that., lol

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Goils were goils & men were men... :)

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That would have been da bomb indeed. No Labview to play with back then lol. I remember having to manually add registration keys to a dos-based gui we had for programming stepper motor controllers with norton utilities whenever we sold a copy, and that program was fairly advanced then, useless for the most part, but advanced.

It probably still worked fine after that, the thing wieghed a ton but I remember it was durable.