How to know you're a child of the 80's

[Henderson]

Boone's Farm

Knew that all TOO well. :drinky:

The Wiz

YIKES!!

Caddyshack

Classic.

Van Halen back when Eddie didn't look like Phyllis Diller

:rofl:

Actually leaving the house to hang out with your friends and not meeting them in a chat room

Yes, I vaguely remember fresh air and sunshine.

 

[Swordlady]

The 80s ... when you had to be someone REALLY special to get your very own PC right on your desk. (now you have to be someone really special NOT to)

I still remember the first computer my dad bought. It was a Commodore 64 (made in 1988). I think it had a 8088 processor. Here are the specs:

NO hard drive (had to boot it from floppy disk!)
NO RAM
Two 5.25" floppy drives
NO 1.44" floppy drive (I don't think they were out yet!)
Monitor was a green screen (no color!)
Don't remember the DOS version
Wordperfect 4.0 (I swiped a copy of Wordperfect 5.1 from school, but it wouldn't work on this PC!)

My first electronic organizer (some Casio thingy with 128 kilobytes of memory, which I bought in 1996) was more advanced than this computer!

Did I mention that my dad used this Commodore til 1998-99? My brothers and I badgered him for years about getting a *real* PC, but he reasoned that since it was good enough for spreadsheets, why did he need a new computer? He finally broke down and bought a Pentium III in mid-1999.

 

[shesulsa]

I still remember the first computer my dad bought. It was a Commodore 64 (made in 1988). I think it had a 8088 processor. Here are the specs:

NO hard drive (had to boot it from floppy disk!)
NO RAM
Two 5.25" floppy drives
NO 1.44" floppy drive (I don't think they were out yet!)
Monitor was a green screen (no color!)
Don't remember the DOS version
Wordperfect 4.0 (I swiped a copy of Wordperfect 5.1 from school, but it wouldn't work on this PC!)

My first electronic organizer (some Casio thingy with 128 kilobytes of memory, which I bought in 1996) was more advanced than this computer!

Did I mention that my dad used this Commodore til 1998-99? My brothers and I badgered him for years about getting a *real* PC, but he reasoned that since it was good enough for spreadsheets, why did he need a new computer? He finally broke down and bought a Pentium III in mid-1999.

Dad bought a Commodore 64 almost as soon as they came out - same specs but we did have a tape drive and a cartridge slot in the keyboard for games. I remember playing Jumpman on that thing for hours - loaded from a 5 1/4" floppy and you had to leave the thing in during the whole game. That and Pacman!

I bought my dad (worked in the computer industry all his post WWII professional life) our first decent PC - a Compaq. Don't remember the specs on it. It was his last Father's Day present in 1986. Paid $3600 cash for it; made him cry.

Omigosh! Pacman! I can't believe we haven't said Pacman! and Ms. Pacman! Asteroids! Space Invaders!!

 

[Bigshadow]

Applesoft Basic

Yikes! That brings back memories. I started programming on an Apple IIe. Ooops, no wait, it was the Commadore Vic 20 with the 3K memory expansion card that is was bigger than the old Atari video game cartridges. I later got a TAPE drive from a friend and I started programming with that.

Dos (there was no # after it)

I just recently threw out a bunch of old DOS books I had stored in boxes. There were many flavors of DOS, too. There was MS-DOS, IBM DOS (PCDOS I believe), and a couple more I cannot remember the names of.

Lotus 123 v1r1
MultiMate

Eeewwww! I wanted to forget those apps!

TRS-80s

The Trash-80 Model III was the first DOS-Like computer I started programming on in High School. Not long after HS I bought a Tandy 1000ex that had a 5.25" floppy drive, and the old green monocrhome monitor. I wrote applications in BASIC for DOS.

Pre-windows Microsoft Word

I remember Word and Word Perfect for DOS. I remember running them from floppy disks. Oh the horror!

Thankfully programming isn't so tedious nowadays and much more managable.

 

[Bigshadow]

Omigosh! Pacman! I can't believe we haven't said Pacman! and Ms. Pacman! Asteroids! Space Invaders!!

Frogger
Galaga (sp?)
Centipede
Defender
Donkey-Kong

Funny you mention that, I get a kick out of it when my son talks about those games, he has Pac-man for the Nintendo, but it is New, but it does come with what he calls "The Classic Pac-man". So now all those games have been relagated to classics. HAHAHAHAHA Everytime he says that, I just laugh.


Oh oh, I nearly forgot... The Solid Gold Dancers! :rofl:

 

[shesulsa]

Oh oh, I nearly forgot... The Solid Gold Dancers! :rofl:

:lfao:

 

[mantis]

Speaking of which...

- You didn't think there was anything wrong with Ernie and Bert living together.

oh i definitely do think so...
i read somewhere long ago that the creator of these 2 characters had in his mind that they were gay.
http://www.who2.com/bertandernie.html

 

[Swordlady]

oh i definitely do think so...
i read somewhere long ago that the creator of these 2 characters had in his mind that they were gay.
http://www.who2.com/bertandernie.html

Um...Ernie and Bert were supposed to be five years old. What kind of sicko would make two 5-year-olds a gay couple?

Anywho...this is supposed to be a *fun* thread. Maybe we can take the debate of Ernie and Bert to the Study or something.

 

[Kreth]

Oh oh, I nearly forgot... The Solid Gold Dancers! :rofl:

What about Sha Na Na?

 

[Henderson]

Um...Ernie and Bert were supposed to be five years old. What kind of sicko would make two 5-year-olds a gay couple?

I thought Bert had a job? How was he a 5 yr old then? Just curious...maybe I'm wrong. That was so long ago.

 

[Swordlady]

Frogger
Galaga (sp?)
Centipede
Defender
Donkey-Kong

Don't forget:

Tempest
Star Wars (still my all-time favorite)
Joust
Stargate (sequel to Defender)
Millipede (sequel to Centipede)

Funny you mention that, I get a kick out of it when my son talks about those games, he has Pac-man for the Nintendo, but it is New, but it does come with what he calls "The Classic Pac-man". So now all those games have been relagated to classics. HAHAHAHAHA Everytime he says that, I just laugh.

Classic Pac-Man? LOL! What does the "new improved updated" Pac-Man look like?

I don't care how fancy the graphics are in today's games. You simply can't beat the classics. Pac-Man and his friends will continue to live on - long after the latest incarnation of Super-Tomb-Raider-Tekken-Warcraft-Halo-Fighter.

Oh oh, I nearly forgot... The Solid Gold Dancers! :rofl:

How about...STAR SEARCH!

 

[Bigshadow]

What about Sha Na Na?

Yep, I remember!

 

[Hand Sword]

Frogger
Galaga (sp?)
Centipede
Defender
Donkey-Kong

Funny you mention that, I get a kick out of it when my son talks about those games, he has Pac-man for the Nintendo, but it is New, but it does come with what he calls "The Classic Pac-man". So now all those games have been relagated to classics. HAHAHAHAHA Everytime he says that, I just laugh.


Oh oh, I nearly forgot... The Solid Gold Dancers! :rofl:

I remember a couple of years ago when I was listening to a classic station, a lot of 80'2 stuff came on. I was mad! 70's is the classic rock (it used to be at least). 80's is not classic! I'm not old !!!

Solid Gold! Yes! The 80's facination with the 50's. So, I have to ask Dionne or Marilynn?

 

[Hand Sword]

Star search, where the losers went on to have platinum careers, and the winners...flipped burgers! -- LOL!

 

[Rich Parsons]

Star search, where the losers went on to have platinum careers, and the winners...flipped burgers! -- LOL!

Yes it was considered the Star Search curse. If you won you really lost.

 

[MartialIntent]

I remember a couple of years ago when I was listening to a classic station, a lot of 80'2 stuff came on. I was mad! 70's is the classic rock (it used to be at least). 80's is not classic! I'm not old !!!

I refuse to watch Lethal Weapon on TCM [Turner Classic Movies]. That's just a recent movie gddmn-it!!

80s NOT DEAD! Hehe.

Respects!

 

[Kreth]

I remember a couple of years ago when I was listening to a classic station, a lot of 80'2 stuff came on. I was mad! 70's is the classic rock (it used to be at least). 80's is not classic! I'm not old !!!

Just like the lyric in the recent song 1985, sometimes I wonder, "When did Motley Crue become classic rock?" :idunno:

 

[hemi]

If the music I grew up with is now Classic rock does that mean I am, Oh God Middle aged. Well I will not grow old gracefully I will use all the Keno I know to keep it at bay.

 

[Bigshadow]

Just like the lyric in the recent song 1985, sometimes I wonder, "When did Motley Crue become classic rock?" :idunno:

Yeah really! It isn't what I call Classic rock. What about all the other hair bands? Along with Motley Crue, Ratt was one of my favorites, and of course the much older Kiss, I liked their 80s comeback.

 

[Swordlady]

Just like the lyric in the recent song 1985, sometimes I wonder, "When did Motley Crue become classic rock?" :idunno:

LOL! "1985" is one of the few recent songs I like, because I can relate to most everything in the lyrics.

Whatever happened to sitcoms, gameshows...