Comments on: 1982—A Year in Review

By: chanaka

chanaka — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:05:11 +0000

Congradulations microsoft harware team! You were also being the best ane will be the best!

By: Octavio Cortes

Octavio Cortes — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:58:43 +0000

I forgot!, the next year was the year I tried Microsoft Flight Simulator for the first time, I managed to land it the very first time I tried at the now closed Meigs Field Airport in Chicago. Have been a fan since, but only managed to really get into it since 1998, have not skipped any version since.

By: Octavio Cortes

Octavio Cortes — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:50:54 +0000

82′ was the year I struggled with vibrato on the violin, the year I considered for the first time the concert flute instead (got it next year!), the year I suffered from temperamental episodes from going through high school, studying english, training for a professional swiming team, learning violin, and not eating properly due to poverty. Lost weight, in fact transformed myself from a chubby kid into a rather slim teenager. It was the year I told my brother that Michael Jackson was going to be a great success after hearing Billy Jean for the first time, I also got the first tastes of Jean Michelle Jarre on electronic music. The most technology I had at the time was a couple of speakers (the cones only actually, no boxes!) which I used under my bed to listen to music for sleeping, or my own recordings tracking my progress on one of 3 cassettes that I could call my property at the time. Those tapes were recorded easily three hundred times per year! A computer was at the time something that was only found inside a bank, a company, or a laboratory. Laser technology however was already been explained to me by one of my older brothers, robotics, binary code, octal and hex were barely in the horizon for me at that time. It was also the year I swam with wild dolphins in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Memories, yes! Quite a few indeed!

By: HonYin Kok

HonYin Kok — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:44:59 +0000

@msfthardware Eek-A-Mouse & U-Neek… You’re The Only One I Need… #MSHWturns30

By: Keith Kolodsick

Keith Kolodsick — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:14:34 +0000

Back in the 80s modems were ‘acoustic couplers’ that would ‘plug into’ your old style phone set. Oh, those were the days.

By: Keith Kolodsick

Keith Kolodsick — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:12:37 +0000

Love MS Hardware … have used MS mice for MANY years. However, not as long as the photos above!

By: George Kain

George Kain — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:53:32 +0000

Who could forget Mt St. Helens blowing her stack. I was living in East Wenatchee at the time and just after 8 in the morning I scolded my two sons, (5 & 3) for jumping out of their bunk beds. Of course we found out later that it was a volcano irruption, later that afternoon the skies went black and a fine powder that smelled of sulfer came raing down on us. Some think I will never forget.

By: Kristinejustin Tolle

Kristinejustin Tolle — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:39:31 +0000

The 80′s were great, but I have to say I love the rock music and the big hair!! The 80′s were wild, even though I was just a child!

By: Lisa S

Lisa S — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:39:20 +0000

Going to the roller skating rink! Wow so long ago!

By: Kurt Gesquiere

Kurt Gesquiere — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:53:46 +0000

I loved the 80′s because you had a turbo button on your xt machine which made all games fly like crazy