Are You a Child of the 80s? - Page 11

sher · 01-04-2003, 06:02 PM

bill, i LOVED our commodore 64! i would play Zork in a dos based format for HOURS and HOURS every weekend!

john, i also remember the 2 different screens in my computer math class. and i remember having to learn to write programs in Basic!

also, we had one of the first camcorders, too... my brothers would have to rest it on their shoulders for support! BIG!! and we also had beta vcrs!

fg, i remember one of my students at univ of north texas dropped her cell phone down the elevator shaft in the building i taught in... now THAT wouldn't have been an issue when i was a freshman in college. no cell phone in 1989 would have come close to fitting through that tiny slit between the elevator compartment and the doors!

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01-04-2003, 08:00 PM

When I was in high school I had to take a 2 hour class for computers because I was in Office Co-Op (where the school places the student in a job and that's one of their classes). I remember a computer called a CRT. It had HUGE, GIGANTIC floppy disk. I think they were close to 12"x12" size I had the darndest time figuring it out. Plus we had IBM's to work on and electric typewriters that you could insert a disk in it. I never saw one of those before and never have again.

I still have one of those VCR's. I saved my money and got one in the late 80's/early 90's. My cost $1000 though. I took it to Arizona and New Mexico in 1992 and I'd never take it on vacation again, it was WAY too big and bulky to carry around.

Remember when pagers/beepers were for drs and drug dealers? LOL I don't think they exist anymore, do they?

Do the guys here wear your collars up around your neck back then? I remember the guys doing that at my school, especially Scott the guy I was "madly in love" with. LOL

holly71 · 01-04-2003, 08:41 PM

John ~ I remember when I was about 10, my best friend & I would walk to the convenience store to get cigarettes for her mom too!

jodaar · 01-04-2003, 08:59 PM

Yeah, I used to buy cigarettes & Skoal for my dad. :rolleyes

What I remember most is rushing home from school to watch GI Joe & Transformers (He-Man too, but he was really lame). Transformers were like totally awesome.

holly71 · 01-04-2003, 10:24 PM

My little brothers used to watch Transformers & He-Man all the time! They also liked to watch Inspector Gadget.

firegirl · 01-05-2003, 12:16 AM

people in my HS used to wear their collars up,, sometimes they wore two "polo" shirts at a time to have two collars up! eeeeek and the school halls always REEKED of Polo cologne, gag!

nlmcp · 01-05-2003, 07:43 AM

I remember going to college in 1980 and having to learn Fortran and Basic (because I had this odd desire to become an engineer) and having to type up the cards to run the program in the UNIVAC (or unisic, what ever that huge room size computer was back then) (my husband would remember but he would kill me for waking him up early) You would have 100's of cards for these little tiny programs, and if you dropped them and mixed them up, you would have to repunch the suckers. I remember trying an early IBM computer in 1982 (can't remember any more detail then that) thinking "this may make it a little easier, but still having trouble thinking like a computer and making my darn programs to run. Still have my electric typewriter that I used through out college but grad school used an Apple 2e which was so much more easier (that was in 1985 and I was considered cutting edge by fellow students, but at that time I was majoring in social work, most of them still consider me cutting edge. but that is a different thread)

Was never a Pac man fan, loved Centipide.

***John*** · 01-05-2003, 08:31 AM

I remember my best friend begged and begged for a Transformed toy for Christmas, and then when Christmas came, he got a frickin' Go-Bot. He was SOOOO bummed. Go-Bots. Blah.

holly71 · 01-05-2003, 12:30 PM

Ya know what else I remember about the 80's, is MTV acutally played MUSIC VIDEOS! And remember on Saturday nights they used to show concerts?

***John*** · 01-05-2003, 12:38 PM

We used to stay up "late" on Fridays to watch "Friday Night Videos", I can't even remember what station used to run those. But it was the only time you'd ever get to see videos that were decent.

01-04-2003, 08:41 PM	#103
holly71 everyone's a critic... Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Lone Star State Age: 39 Posts: 3,683	John ~ I remember when I was about 10, my best friend & I would walk to the convenience store to get cigarettes for her mom too! __________________ Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

01-04-2003, 10:24 PM	#105
holly71 everyone's a critic... Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Lone Star State Age: 39 Posts: 3,683	My little brothers used to watch Transformers & He-Man all the time! They also liked to watch Inspector Gadget. __________________ Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

01-05-2003, 07:43 AM	#107
nlmcp An innocent bystander Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The mitten state Posts: 3,399	I remember going to college in 1980 and having to learn Fortran and Basic (because I had this odd desire to become an engineer) and having to type up the cards to run the program in the UNIVAC (or unisic, what ever that huge room size computer was back then) (my husband would remember but he would kill me for waking him up early) You would have 100's of cards for these little tiny programs, and if you dropped them and mixed them up, you would have to repunch the suckers. I remember trying an early IBM computer in 1982 (can't remember any more detail then that) thinking "this may make it a little easier, but still having trouble thinking like a computer and making my darn programs to run. Still have my electric typewriter that I used through out college but grad school used an Apple 2e which was so much more easier (that was in 1985 and I was considered cutting edge by fellow students, but at that time I was majoring in social work, most of them still consider me cutting edge. but that is a different thread) Was never a Pac man fan, loved Centipide. __________________ I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise. ~Bob Seger

01-05-2003, 12:30 PM	#109
holly71 everyone's a critic... Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Lone Star State Age: 39 Posts: 3,683	Ya know what else I remember about the 80's, is MTV acutally played MUSIC VIDEOS! And remember on Saturday nights they used to show concerts? __________________ Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

01-04-2003, 06:02 PM	#101
sher hellooooooo Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: dallas, fer sure Age: 39 Posts: 8,551	bill, i LOVED our commodore 64! i would play Zork in a dos based format for HOURS and HOURS every weekend! john, i also remember the 2 different screens in my computer math class. and i remember having to learn to write programs in Basic! also, we had one of the first camcorders, too... my brothers would have to rest it on their shoulders for support! BIG!! and we also had beta vcrs! fg, i remember one of my students at univ of north texas dropped her cell phone down the elevator shaft in the building i taught in... now THAT wouldn't have been an issue when i was a freshman in college. no cell phone in 1989 would have come close to fitting through that tiny slit between the elevator compartment and the doors!

01-04-2003, 08:00 PM	#102
MenInUniform Guest Posts: n/a	When I was in high school I had to take a 2 hour class for computers because I was in Office Co-Op (where the school places the student in a job and that's one of their classes). I remember a computer called a CRT. It had HUGE, GIGANTIC floppy disk. I think they were close to 12"x12" size I had the darndest time figuring it out. Plus we had IBM's to work on and electric typewriters that you could insert a disk in it. I never saw one of those before and never have again. I still have one of those VCR's. I saved my money and got one in the late 80's/early 90's. My cost $1000 though. I took it to Arizona and New Mexico in 1992 and I'd never take it on vacation again, it was WAY too big and bulky to carry around. Remember when pagers/beepers were for drs and drug dealers? LOL I don't think they exist anymore, do they? Do the guys here wear your collars up around your neck back then? I remember the guys doing that at my school, especially Scott the guy I was "madly in love" with. LOL

01-04-2003, 08:59 PM	#104
jodaar your ad here Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,228	Yeah, I used to buy cigarettes & Skoal for my dad. :rolleyes What I remember most is rushing home from school to watch GI Joe & Transformers (He-Man too, but he was really lame). Transformers were like totally awesome.

01-05-2003, 12:16 AM	#106
firegirl FORT Fogey Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Waiting to watch the red carpet Age: 44 Posts: 3,007	people in my HS used to wear their collars up,, sometimes they wore two "polo" shirts at a time to have two collars up! eeeeek and the school halls always REEKED of Polo cologne, gag!

01-05-2003, 08:31 AM	#108
*John* The race is back! Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: On the mat Age: 39 Posts: 40,434	I remember my best friend begged and begged for a Transformed toy for Christmas, and then when Christmas came, he got a frickin' Go-Bot. He was SOOOO bummed. Go-Bots. Blah.

01-05-2003, 12:38 PM	#110
*John* The race is back! Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: On the mat Age: 39 Posts: 40,434	We used to stay up "late" on Fridays to watch "Friday Night Videos", I can't even remember what station used to run those. But it was the only time you'd ever get to see videos that were decent.