Back to the 80s: Get thee to a DeLorean!!

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[Alkhin]

Since so many on here are 'pairing off' into their own generational groups...and I cannot join any of them because I a member of the loathed GenX group, *I* am going to start a thread of my own, featuring MY website. JimRob, if this is not suitable for your site, I understand if you take it off, but I cannot help myself. The others are having just too much fun!

So, my fellow 80s children, what was your fav music/event/fashion/movie from the decade that featured the best darn President of the 20th century, Ronaldus Magnus????

You'll have to go to my website to see mine!! *wink* *wink*!! LOL

Back to the 80s: Get thee to a DeLorean http://www.geocities.com/radthing/index.html

[cmsgop]

LMAO! that answer only took a few years, LOL!!!!!!!

[Dead Dog]

$500.00 AR-15's from Colt.

Twisted Sister

Trying to explain distilation to Jen Jesse in Chem class, and making the 16 year old blunder of saying "nice sweater!" after losing eye contact. :)

[AgentEcho]

Hey I had one of those piece of crap Adams, Buck Rogers casette and all. RE: the power supply, it got to the point that when I powered up the daisy wheel (YES DAISY WHEEL) would just spin and spin and the system would never boot. I found the lead that ran to the printer motherboard, unplugged it and the system worked.

I worked my butt off all summer with my dad to get that thing. $720 from Montgomery Wards. Dude I was proud of myself. Then again I was 12 years old and it WAS an upgrade to my VIC-20.

I trudged along with it for a few years (after Honeywell repaired the power issue) until my grandmother bought me a Commodore-128S. Then to the Amiga 500 then 1000 then 2000 then PC with a couple of Apple IIs thrown in for good measure. Then PCs/PowerMacs.

I do remember DROOLING ofer the Atari 1040ST.

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[Dead Dog]

Summer afternoons flying parent's '46 T-Craft over Autzen Stadium during Greatful Dead concerts...annual, maintenance, and insurance paid for by said parents.

Neo-Dead Head chicks running topless on Spencer's Butte (prior to '89 they were old craggy hippies).

Dairy-Mart didn't start carding until late '89.

Hangovers were tolerable, bed spins were fun.

Van Halen was still MTV, not Van Hagar on VH-1

MTV played music videos

[eXe]

Wow, beat this.. I picked up my first .22 marlin papoose in a SEARS of all places in NY in the 80's

Everyone, thanks for the memories.. Now I am playing my old 80's MP3's hehe Ahhh the simpler times.

[Dead Dog]

"Tour of Duty".

[AgentEcho]

Friday Night Videos was awesome the first few years when it was almost if not completely videos. Then the hosts started taking up more and more of the show and I lost interest.

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[Dead Dog]

Sam Kinnison

[humblegunner]

Ahh... Guns-n-Roses, Van Halen, Camaros, watching Scarface and daring each other
to do a line every time Tony says "f@*k", a closet fulla black tee-shirts with Ozzy on 'em...

Those were the days!

Amazing how we grew up to be humanitys fairest flowers and greatest hope.

[12B]

"Jaws was from the mid 70's. Basically that's all I can remember.

[Dan from Michigan]

"Road of the Gypsy" is still one of my favorites.

Great song, and I had a hard time finding it. (Finally did at CDNOW)

[Dan from Michigan]

"From my cold dead hands"

[Vigilantcitizen]

"watching Scarface and daring each other to do a line every time Tony says "f@*k","

Or the famed "Tony Montana" hands free face plant.

[Dan from Michigan]

Damn! I can't believe I forgot about that show.

My dad thinks that one of the screenwriters of that show served in the same recon unit he was in.

[Jotmo]

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[Alkhin]

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[Alkhin]

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[Proud2BAmerican]

Intellivision? My next door neighbor used to have that -- I can still remember sitting in front of the baseball game, for about an hour and a half, until I scored enough runs off the computer to get to triple digits. Or the boxing game, with the crowd noise that punctuated good hits...

But my first computer was the Commodore Vic-20 -- made the C-64 look like a G4.

[Proud2BAmerican]

I remember my Dad installed a modem on our family Apple IIe, so that my sister and I could e-mail him on his business trips (he brought along a laptop that must have weighed 8 pounds). I believe it ran at about 300 baud; I can recall when downloaded his e-mails (using the software "Data Capture IIe"), you coudl actually see the text scrolling across the screen as it downloaded.

[Proud2BAmerican]

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