The 80s
Posted 08-16-2013 at 08:42 AM by Joe the Photog
I graduated in 1988. We still had projectors projecting onto screens that rolled down in front of a chalk board. Don't know what a chalk board was? It was a board where the teacher wrote stuff for the class in chalk. The really cool teachers used different colors of chalk. When we wanted to watch a movie or something on video, the teacher had to request one of the very few TVs in the school be rolled down to her class for her.
And I say her because in my hometown, the vast majority of teachers were female in the 80s.
When we got copies of tests, most of them were made from copies with pale, purple or lavender ink. There were very few computers in the school, even for the office staff. They may have connected to the Internet, but no one knew what that really was or what it did. I know I was able to look for job information on a computer once. I printed the information off on the dot matrix printer in the library.
A lot of kids in the 80s tripped out VW Beetles. One guy made his VW into a dune buggy. Others made their S-10 pick-ups into low riders. My best friend through high school had the coolest ride in my opinion -- a 1978 Golden Eagle Jeep, black with gold rims and an eagle painted on the hood! It had a loud muffler and was very cool. They don't make Jeeps like that anymore.
Video arcades were cool to hang out in. Even my small town had two of them! They had a juke box that still played 45s! My favorite games were Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxy and Pole Position.
I had one friend who had a home computer. It was a Tandy and used a big floppy disk. I forget the size, but it was literally floppy, not the hard disks that came out later. It was pretty useless for anything other than using it as a type writer. By the way, I had a type writer in my room and thought that was very cool!
We had cable, but there wasn't much cable to have. Because I lived in a small South Carolina town, MTV was not on the cable system. We had to watch the music videos on "Friday Night Videos" on NBC or on TBS all night Saturday. Most of us watched "Miami Vice" when we weren't out with friends, right up to the very end of the series
And I say her because in my hometown, the vast majority of teachers were female in the 80s.
When we got copies of tests, most of them were made from copies with pale, purple or lavender ink. There were very few computers in the school, even for the office staff. They may have connected to the Internet, but no one knew what that really was or what it did. I know I was able to look for job information on a computer once. I printed the information off on the dot matrix printer in the library.
A lot of kids in the 80s tripped out VW Beetles. One guy made his VW into a dune buggy. Others made their S-10 pick-ups into low riders. My best friend through high school had the coolest ride in my opinion -- a 1978 Golden Eagle Jeep, black with gold rims and an eagle painted on the hood! It had a loud muffler and was very cool. They don't make Jeeps like that anymore.
Video arcades were cool to hang out in. Even my small town had two of them! They had a juke box that still played 45s! My favorite games were Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxy and Pole Position.
I had one friend who had a home computer. It was a Tandy and used a big floppy disk. I forget the size, but it was literally floppy, not the hard disks that came out later. It was pretty useless for anything other than using it as a type writer. By the way, I had a type writer in my room and thought that was very cool!
We had cable, but there wasn't much cable to have. Because I lived in a small South Carolina town, MTV was not on the cable system. We had to watch the music videos on "Friday Night Videos" on NBC or on TBS all night Saturday. Most of us watched "Miami Vice" when we weren't out with friends, right up to the very end of the series
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Yeah, I remember Miami Vice really well, but I didn't religiously watch it. That theme song, though, was a huge hit on the music charts back in the day. And it's interesting that you brought up Friday Night Videos. I've totally forgotten about that series, but it filled a void for those who didn't have cable at what was then a new phenomenon. I believe that NBC replaced SCTV (which replaced The Midnight Special) with that show, if I recall.
Great memories of yore.
Posted 08-16-2013 at 02:05 PM by case44
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I Loved Ms. Pac-Man and Galaxy and recall playing Galaga (maybe I'm thinking of Galaga vice Galaxy). I remember the floppy disks. They were about 5.5 inches square and yes, floppy. Yeah, it was a cool day to have the TV get rolled into the classroom -- Good times!!!!!Posted 03-30-2018 at 02:37 PM by jewel104
