Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apple II Plus ($1,330). The hardy bestseller of the late '70s is also the hardy bestseller of the early '80s: 700,000 have been sold; 270,000 in 1982 alone. With so many cheaper and more sophisticated machines available, why does the Apple II still hold the biggest slice of the $1,000-to-$2,000 pie? Software. More programs are available for this six-year-old machine than for any other single computer, some 16,000 in all. Also more user groups, more space in the computer magazines, more plug-in expansion units, more peripheral devices...
...find it confusing being a woman in the '80s?" she asks Dorothy/Michael, and that understates her case. Julie has a career. She has a baby but no husband. She has her male chauvinist director for a lover. She has a problem with alcohol. And now there is this strange attraction she feels for the tamperproof Dorothy...
Acid rain is shaping up as the ecological issue of the '80s...
...regrettable maxim of the '80s is that frivolity has become the mother of invention. The latest evidence: Andy Warhol, 51, the lifeless doyen of Pop art, is being immortalized as a lifelike robot. The copy is the work of Alvaro Villa, 42, a onetime Disney animator, who claims that the computerized dummy will be barely distinguishable from the real thing. Villa will bless A2W2 with preprogrammed speech and 54 separate body movements. Upon completion, the $400,000 robot will hit the road as the star of a $1.25 million multimedia road show called Andy Warhol's Overexposed...
...professional sports are going to see elections as we see sporting events or--more to the point--game shows. Maybe by '88 or '92 we'll be watching "Senatorial Jackpot" or "Congressional Feud." Maybe if we can win a few bucks, the apathetic generations of the '70s and '80s will pay a little attention to who is making the decisions about life and death and war and taxes in this country...