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What 2 GFLOPs looks like in 1985:

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Cost: 16 Million (32 million adjusted)

Weight: About 12 tons

Displays not included

 

What 2* GFLOPs looks like today:

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Cost: $400

Weight: 650g

Display: Included

 

 

* Does not include power of graphics subsystem

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  • Kitchen (aka wall) phone
  • Message/note/memo pad next to wall phone
  • Betamax tapes
  • Acoustic modems
  • Black & white computer monitors (also green & white and orange & white)
  • Loading software from a cassette tape. You start loading, go watch TV, come to check after 10-15 minutes; if needed (often) adjust volume, rewind tape and try again.

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Learning how to drive in an empty mall parking lot on a Sunday (all stores were closed on Sunday's until 1992).

yeah, with malls open on Sunday I found the best place to teach my kids driving was a grave yard...

 

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While watching some '80s porn and "reminiscing" about the decade, there were several things I saw in the movie that were commonly seen in the '80s and not so much today:

  • telephones with cords
  • telephones with dials
  • people enjoying a meal together and no one at the table was checking their email, taking a phone call or texting
  • people getting up and walking across the room to change a channel or adjust the volume
  • bush, lots of bush

For some of you younger lads that may not be familiar with the term "bush" having never seen one, it is a reference to a ladies vaginal hair.

 

I must have been in a coma years ago and missed reading all the headlines, but what ever happened to bush?

 

Was some guy (or gal) dining at the Y and after an unfortunate snag it was decided that it had to go?

 

I kind of miss it :(

I agree that the bush was sexy.

 

If it makes you feel any better, my wife still has her bush. I'm sure she's not alone in the lack of landscaping down under.

 

I actually put out a question about that a while back. The best response I got was that it was had to do with Thong bathing suits. As they became more popular it encouraged trimming of the nether regions.

 

I'm a member of playboy cyberclub and have access to the pinups from its inception to the present. Looking at playboy from 1980 to 2010 you see a very gradual reduction in bush from year to year. Consistent with the thong hypothesis, the shape of the bush first became narrow before finally disappearing altogether .

 

Its a fascinating cultural shift in the concept of sexy, worthy of close scrutiny, lol. I plan to spend many hours closely examining the evidence.

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Woke up and it was as hard as a rock , see a good looking girl it was hard , have a quicky at lunch cause it was hard, get highway head cause it was hard, before dinner of course because it got hard, get into bed and it was instantly hard ! Ahh the eighties how times have changed !

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Lee's long wavy curly hair ..... last seen in the eighties ;)

 

Anyone seen it ? I would like it back. Not grey either. Blonde like it was :)

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Woke up and it was as hard as a rock , see a good looking girl it was hard , have a quicky at lunch cause it was hard, get highway head cause it was hard, before dinner of course because it got hard, get into bed and it was instantly hard ! Ahh the eighties how times have changed !

 

You're right - things have changed!

 

In the '80s, all that was required was stiff wind to make it stiff, actually, a slight breeze would work too.

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Beverly Hills Cop: the scene where they had a cellular phone that was like a lunchpail with a handset on top. Glad I never had to carry one of those things around.

 

Too bad they never made a Beverly Hills Cop/Miami Vice crossover movie!

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Woke up and it was as hard as a rock , see a good looking girl it was hard , have a quicky at lunch cause it was hard, get highway head cause it was hard, before dinner of course because it got hard, get into bed and it was instantly hard ! Ahh the eighties how times have changed !

For me, I don't think that's changed much. I still get hard at inopportune times. Perhaps not as often, but more often than is needed.

 

I remember my first hard on, in grade 7 English, (1976 approx.). Didn't have clue what was happening. LOL.

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Well lets see

Hair, as in I used to have a head of hair

Shampoo, needed it for my head of hair

Comb, needed it to comb my hair

For a little bit of time I couldn't see my upper lip...had a moustache too

My feet...yup back then I was skinny and could look down and see my feet nuff said...but I'm going to start working on that

Something that is strange (sarcastic voice here) nowadays you see people, lots of people with a cellphone to their ear it seems 24/7 365 days a year. But back in the 80's I didn't see long line ups at pay phones...how did we ever survive back then

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  • Kitchen (aka wall) phone
  • Message/note/memo pad next to wall phone
  • Betamax tapes
  • Acoustic modems
  • Black & white computer monitors (also green & white and orange & white)
  • Loading software from a cassette tape. You start loading, go watch TV, come to check after 10-15 minutes; if needed (often) adjust volume, rewind tape and try again.

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I still have a phone like that, it's the only thing that works during a power outage

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I still have a phone like that, it's the only thing that works during a power outage

 

Besides your cell phone you mean ;)

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  • pocket pagers
  • harvest gold and avocado green appliances
  • wall-to-wall shag carpet left over from the '70s
  • vans with shag carpeted interiors
  • no metal detectors or any other security for domestic flights
  • unbiased fact checked news reporting
  • payphones were everywhere
  • like payphones, tat-less people were everywhere
  • people that had no clue what software was or what a computer could (or could not) do

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  • homes with only 3 electronic devices: TV, cable box, radio/stereo
  • vacuum tubes (valves for our British friends) - many TVs and radios in our homes still had them
  • CB radio antennas on cars
  • lugable computers - you couldn't use them on your lap if you tried
  • disco
  • cassette organizers & carrying cases
  • continuous form paper - wide format 15" x 11"

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People in the '80s were able to let loose and have a great time acting silly at a party without any fear of a photograph or video being immediately, or ever, being shown to everyone on the planet.

 

> Almost no one carried a film camera or video camera - too expensive, bulky and heavy. Theoretically, women could carry a camera in a large purse, but why would they.

 

> Film cameras had limited shots and pictures were expensive to develop and duplicate, instant polaroid film was expensive and difficult & expensive to duplicate. Handing out copies of photos was a pain in the butt, post-mailing them was expensive and a bigger pain in the butt.

 

> Video cameras were very expensive, big, bulky and heavy. Duplicating video tapes was slow and expensive. Showing a video required a VCR and TV.

 

Rob Ford surely misses the '80s.

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