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    This week we explore 1984. Please click the thanks button if you enjoy reading Through the Years and please feel free to post your memories of 1984. What were you doing at the time ? What can you remember ?


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    Link to frontpage of the Australian


    IN 1949, when George Orwell wrote his bleak novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, he imagined the rise and rise of totalitarianism, the evil influence of Big Brother and the ever-tightening control of the state over individuals.

    But when 1984 arrived, the opposite was true. The first cracks were appearing in monolithic communist societies, huge mainframe computers were being abandoned in favour of personal devices and a free-market economy was emerging to reward individual enterprise.

    The world was making a sharp turn to the political right. Led by Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the US, waves of deregulation stripped needless controls away from economic activity. Taxes were lowered and the primacy of the individual replaced collectivism as a political mantra. In Australia the Labor government of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating followed suit, reversing past party policies.



    A revolution in computing enabled extraordinary changes. Since the 60s computers had been designed around mainframes holding massive amounts of information in centralised databanks. The arrival of the silicone chip changed all that. Computers with the same power as mainframes were built into desktop units and specific software enabled myriad different uses. Month by month computers became smaller, faster and cheaper, and they swept out of specially constructed rooms into offices, factories and homes.

    Between 1961 and 1989 the speed of computer operation increased 230,000-fold. Not only were computers revolutionising businesses, particularly in the financial, telecommunications and transport sectors, they were liberating individuals as well, instead of becoming instruments of state power as envisaged by Orwell.

    While 1984 was a pivotal year in global politics and economics, it was also a year of seemingly endless terror and armed struggle. In April, gunmen inside the Libyan embassy in London killed a policewoman and injured 10 demonstrators; in June, Indian army troops stormed the sacred Golden Temple in Punjab, killing 300 Sikhs. In October, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in revenge by Sikh members of her security guard. Two weeks earlier an IRA bomber tried to kill Margaret Thatcher at a political conference in Brighton. She escaped injury but four others died and 32 were wounded.

    In Sydney, seven people died and 15 were wounded on Father’s Day in the car park of the Milperra Hotel during a bikie shootout. The Family Court came under attack three times: twice judges’ homes were bombed, resulting in the death of a judge’s wife, and a bomb exploded in the precinct of the Parramatta Court.

    The community’s pushback against organised crime got under way with the first hearings of the newly created National Crime Authority; Robert Trimbole was named as the instigator of the killing of Griffith anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay, and the Costigan royal commission into the Federated Ship Painters & Dockers Union linked Kerry Packer with organised crime. He was fully exonerated in 1987.

    Reagan scored a landslide win over Walter Mondale in the US presidential election and at home, Hawke called an early election for December 1984.

    He was listless on the long campaign trail, with the reason becoming apparent when it was revealed his daughter was addicted to heroin. The prime minister wept on national TV but survived with a reduced majority.



    When Paul Hogan makes an ad for US television inviting Americans to come and say G’day, “I’ll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you”, they flock in their thousands.



    Young teenager Fiona Coote gets a new chance to live when she receives a heart transplant on April 8 – one of the first in Australia. She has been highly regarded for the charitable work she has done throughout her life.

    In a daring turf ring-in, the better performing Bold Personality is substituted for Fine Cotton at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm on August 18. A betting plunge coupled with paint wearing off Bold Personality’s leg arouses suspicions. Among those “warned off” when the scandal is revealed are Sydney bookmaking royalty, Bill and Robbie Waterhouse

    Indira Gandhi, Indian PM, is assassinated on October 31, shot by two of her own bodyguards. It comes only weeks after an attempt to kill the British PM Margaret Thatcher when the Provisional IRA bombs the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party is holding its conference. Five people die.

    A spate of bombings aimed at Family Court judges in Sydney is stepped up in March with an explosion outside the home of Justice Richard Gee on March 6. Next month a bomb rocks the Family Court in Parramatta and then in July Justice Ray Watson has his home bombed (pictured), killing wife Pearl. The crimes, which began with the killing of Justice David Opas in 1980, remain unsolved.

    “The money or the box, customers?” Pick a Box quiz master Bob Dyer dies on January 9

    Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies, to be replaced by Konstantin Chernenko

    The $100 note and $1 coin are issued. We’ve all seen a lot more of the latter

    Australia wins 4 gold at the LA Olympics, including Dean Lukin in the weightlifting

    Ronald Reagan wins a second term as US President, trouncing Democrat Walter Mondale.

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    1 February – Medicare comes into effect in Australia.



    2 February – Melbourne newspaper The Age publishes phone taps incriminating an unknown judge.

    6 February – A bomb blast wrecks the home of Judge Richard Gee in the Sydney suburb of Belrose. High Court Judge, Justice Lionel Murphy is named in Parliament as the judge referred to in The Age tapes published on 2 February.

    24 March – Wran Government re-elected in NSW for a 4th term.

    April - A 115g jar of Vegemite is the first product in Australia to be electronically scanned at a checkout.



    19 April – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

    14 May – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.



    18 May - In New South Wales gay sex between consenting adult males is decriminalised.

    18 July – National Crime Authority established



    1 August – Australian banks are deregulated.

    21 August – The Federal budget is televised for the first time.

    2–7 September people shot dead and 12 wounded in bikie shootout between rival bikie gangs the Bandidos and Comancheros in the Sydney suburb of Milperra.



    August – Brenda Hodge becomes the last person to be sentenced to death by Western Australia, and in the country as a whole, before the complete abolition of capital punishment. Her sentence is later commuted to life imprisonment.


    Brenda Hodge

    5 September – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment for ordinary crimes (i.e. murder). New South Wales maintained it as a punishment for treason and piracy with violence until 1985†, when capital punishment was finally abolished in Australia.

    1 November - National Film + Sound Archives (Screensound Australia) opens in Canberra

    26 November – Former NSW Corrective Services Minister Rex Jackson appears in Court on conspiracy charges for the early release of Prisoners.

    2 December – Hawke Government re-elected with a reduced majority.

    The 1984 Ford Falcon


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    January 1
    Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
    Bell System in the United States is broken up.

    January 3 – President of the United States Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.



    January 5 - President Ronald Reagan nominates Elizabeth Dole as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

    January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

    January 10
    The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.
    The Victoria Agreement is signed.

    January 18 – The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan, kills 83.

    January 21 – Jackie Wilson passes away after a lengthy coma, aged 49.


    Jackie Wilson

    January 24 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.

    Apple Computer Macintosh Commercial 1984


    February 1 – Medicare comes into effect in Australia.

    February 3
    Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
    STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.


    Challenger

    February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.

    February 8–19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.



    February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

    February 26 – The United States Marine Corps pulls out of Beirut, Lebanon.

    February 29 – Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement.

    March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.

    March 6 – A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (see UK miners' strike (1984-85)).



    March 14 – Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force.

    March 16 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity.

    March 22 – Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the school children; the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

    March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.

    March 25
    Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, Portugal.
    The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) is founded under Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela.

    April 1 – Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, one day before his 45th birthday.


    Marvin Gaye

    April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.

    April 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.

    April 9 – The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.



    April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).

    April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.

    April 15
    English comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
    The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.

    April 16 - More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.

    April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman, leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London.

    April 19 – "Advance Australia Fair" is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.



    April 23 - United States researchers announce their discovery of the AIDS virus.

    April 25 – The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.

    April 26 – Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

    May 2 – The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.

    May 5 – The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song "Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley".

    May 8
    The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
    Denis Lortie kills three government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
    The Chicago White Sox defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history: 25 innings totalling eight hours, six minutes.

    May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.

    May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", opens.



    May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.

    May 17 – Michael Silka kills nine people near Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.

    May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England, kills 16 people.

    May 27 – An overnight flash flood rages through neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 15 inches of rain falls in some areas over a four-hour period; 14 people are killed.

    May 31 – Six inmates, including James and Linwood Briley, escape from a death row facility at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, the only occasion this has ever happened in the United States.


    Briley Brothers

    June 1 – William M. Gibbons is released as receiver and trustee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, after all of its debts and creditors are paid off by order of a federal bankruptcy court.

    June 3 – Ronald Reagan visits his ancestral home in Ballyporeen, the Republic of Ireland.

    June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

    June 8 – A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.

    June 20 – The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.

    June 22
    The official name of the Turkish city of Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
    Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

    June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.

    June 28 – Richard Ramírez(the "Night Stalker") murders his first confirmed victim.


    Richard Ramirez

    June 30 – John Napier Turner becomes Canada's 17th prime minister.

    June 30 - Elton John plays the famous Night and Day Concert at Wembley Stadium.


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    July 13 – , a 19-year old living in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, falls into a deep coma after a severe automobile accident (he will eventually awaken 19 years later on June 13, 2003).


    Terry Wallis

    July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon calls a snap election and is heavily defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.

    July 18
    Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
    In San Ysidro, San Diego, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed himself.

    July 23 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine.


    Vanessa Williams

    July 25 – Salyut 7: cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.



    July 28–August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.



    August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.



    August 4 – The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

    August 4 – Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.

    August 11
    United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
    Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, controversially granted British citizenship earlier in the year, collides with Mary Decker of the U.S. in the Olympic 3000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.

    August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.

    August 17 – Peru recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

    August 21 – Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

    August 30 – STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

    September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.



    September 4
    The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the Canadian House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
    The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.

    September 5
    STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
    Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.

    September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.

    September 16 – Edgar Reitz's film series Heimat begins release in Germany.

    September 17 – Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.

    September 18 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.

    September 20 – Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people.

    September 23 – The television drama Threads, a documentary of nuclear war, broadcasts on BBC Two.

    September 26 – The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.

    October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.

    October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

    October 11 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

    October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.

    October 19 – Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.

    October 23 – The world learns from moving BBC News television reports presented by Michael Buerk of the famine in Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine, and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.



    October 25 – The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.

    October 31 – Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with majority populations of Hindus. Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.


    Indira Ghandi

    November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.

    November 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

    November 11 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as The 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", closes.

    November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.

    November 19 – A series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

    November 25
    An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
    Band Aid (assembled by Bob Geldof) records the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in London to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. It is released on December 3.



    Uruguayan presidential election, 1984: Julio María Sanguinetti is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of military dictatorship.

    November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

    November 30 – The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese people from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.

    December – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.

    December 1 – Controlled Impact Demonstration: NASA and the FAA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720.



    December 2 – Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.

    December 3
    Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
    British Telecom is privatised.

    December 4
    Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107-150 civilians in Mannar.
    Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.

    December 10 – Cisco Systems is founded.

    December 14 – Nigeria recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

    December 19 – The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.

    December 22
    Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in the Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.



    In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.

    December 28 – A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.

    1983–85 famine in Ethiopia intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
    Crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the crack epidemic.



    The Chrysler Corporation introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as "minivans". They are branded as the Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager.

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    1. "Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen



    2. "It's Just Not Cricket The Twelfth Man



    3. "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr



    4. "Careless Whisper" George Michael



    5. "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" Wham!



    6. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder



    7. "Footloose" Kenny Loggins



    8. "Hello Lionel Richie



    9. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Cyndi Lauper



    10. "Islands in the Stream" Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton



    11. "Love Is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar



    12. "Original Sin" INXS


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    13 "Come Said the Boy" Mondo Rock



    14. "When Doves Cry" Prince

    Sorry - There is no video of this song

    15. "Heaven (Must Be There)" Eurogliders



    16. "Relax" Frankie Goes to Hollywood



    17. "Thriller" Michael Jackson



    18. "99 Luftballons" Nena



    19. "Calling Your Name" Marilyn



    20. "Two Tribes" Frankie Goes to Hollywood



    21. "Against All Odds" Phil Collins



    22. "What's Love Got to Do with It?" Tina Turner



    23. "All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie



    24. "I Can Dream About You" Dan Hartman



    25. "Burn for You" INXS


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    Well looks like the rest of you were doing nothing in 1984 while I was working 50 hrs a week average as a slave/apprentice for $200 a week, after completing my 2 years full time Tech course.

    Music was my saviour as I spent 3-4 hours of my 10 hr day polishing metal castings with my cassette player & headphones on.

    Another great choice of music from the time, thanks Admin.
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    It took me now precisely 30 years to buy my first MAC, albeit very second hand, LOL.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tiny View Post
    Well looks like the rest of you were doing nothing .....
    No... I was NOT !


    The Sinclair QL was released in 1984 and me and my student college each bought one.
    Soon after that we started a tiny business with the crazy ideas we had after I tore it apart.

    This largely unpopular tiny little computer was actually quite ahead of time and became the core of our designs. As a home computer it was a terribly dodgy build but the tiny motherboard was a designers dream with all the interfaces and ports it had and reliability improved dramatically when I powered it with a decent supply and a few other mods.

    Being a flop for the general consumer we could get these Qls for as low a $99 later on.
    The expansion port was fantastic, you could easily make a little boards with Eproms and a battery backed up static RAM and run the operating system and software entirely from that, eliminating the need for floppies and hard drives.
    We built and sold vending machines with CRT screen for the customer running entirely from these QL boards. The coin acceptor and banknote reader were simply plugged into the two COM ports and we misused the parallel port for the hopper(dispenses coins). Of course it had a designated RGB port for the CRT… life was soo easy, although it got slightly trickier when we had to use a magnetic card reader that required a third COM port.
    Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
    Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
    Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...

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    I was still in the Railways, (Vicrail or Vline, can't remember) so I was basically doing nothing too.

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    I can remember sleeping in an abandoned old caravan for some parts of 1984 It was seriously unpleasant as part of it was missing

    I was mostly living in a mates parents holiday house. Only he and his mate were meant to be living there but there were 10 of us. No one had a job and we lived off pooling our dole cheques. When you got yours, you didnt keep it, it was everyones. We lived reasonably well and it taught me a lot about mateship. Though I was stoned most of the time

    When his parents came down (once, sometimes twice a month on weekends, all easter and xmas etc), 8 of us had to get out and find somewhere else to stay until they left.

    Actually, I am surprised I can remember much of 1984.

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