what techologies did they use in 1980?

Answer 1

Assess and recommend the use of new/emerging software tecnologies. ... Technology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, June 1980 to 1998. ...www.wsu.edu:8080/~anderson/resumnew.htm

Answer 2

Gee, we did have fire by then. Sorry, you're making me feel old--I graduated from high school in 1981. We felt really cool because we had word processors. Not quite computers, but you could backspace and not have to erase everything on paper when you made a mistake. Apparently some computer geek out in California had invented a mouse prototype, but we hadn't heard of them yet. And there were computers, but there wasn't such a thing as a desktop or a laptop yet--most of them were in large institutions, and took up a lot of space. When I took a computer class at IU in 1983, we were the last university still using punch cards to program them. There were several computer languages you could choose from, such as Fortran, just because nobody was sure which language would eventually become the one which dominated the market.

We had telephones, of course, but not cell phones. We had vinyl records, not CD's. We didn't have many VCR's yet, cable TV was still a few years away, and satellite TV was still years away. To give you an idea, "Star Wars" was a breakthrough movie, because the special effects were revolutionary, but none of them were computer-generated, because there wasn't such a thing then. Some scenes of this "state-of-the-art" movie were shot by taking apart hundreds of model car parts, arranging them on plywood boards on the backlot, and driving past them while shooting.

I hope this helps. Now let me go put my dentures in to soak!

Answer 3

- VCRs were the big thing, there was a huge format fight with Sony's Beta. VHS format won. Although the quality wasn't as good, you could record for longer time.
- Fax machines.
- Phone Answering machines allowed you to leave important messages.
- 'Xerox' Photocopy machines allowed wider spread of documents and college students really benefited from it, copying notes and pages from books.
- Pong was THE video game soon to be replaced by the 'amazing' color graphics of Atari.
- The Walkman! now you could listen to your favorite music tapes on the go

Answer 4

Well I think I had a wheel,and most of my cave etchings were still in B&W, (thats why we carried clubs, real hard to get the girls to come in and look at cave walls without color).