If you remember the old 'Reach out - reach out and touch someone' long distance ad jingle, you probably just sang those words in your head! Look back at some of these vintage TV commercials, and find out how the ditty came together here!| Click Americana
In the spring of 1980, Ken and Roberta Williams were unknowingly about to change gaming. Working out of their small home in Simi Valley, California, their first game, Mystery House, had just been c…| Retro365
Before starting detailed write-ups on some of the games released under SSI’s short-lived RapidFire label, I wanted to give a brief overview of the brand and the titles it introduced between 1982 and 1983. By 1982, Strategic Simulations Inc. had firmly established itself as the premier publisher of computer wargames. Founded in 1979 by Joel […]| Retro365
By 1982, the home computer software market was evolving fast. What had begun just a few years earlier as a freewheeling space dominated by garage developers and bedroom coders was now becoming an i…| Retro365
Midnight is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Night of the Living Dead co-writer John A. Russo... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
By the early 1980s, the Apple II had emerged as the centerpiece of the growing software boom. One of the new companies capitalizing on the momentum was Datamost, founded in 1981 by Dave Gordon foll…| Retro365
Now a psychotherapist and two sociologists from the Kinsey Institute have added new coal to the fire. Using a statistical method called path analysis on data based on the childhood social and sexual behavior of 979 male and female homosexuals and 477 male and female heterosexuals, Bell, Weinberg, and Hammersmith offer a consolation to guilty parents that earned front page attention in the New York Times:| Science for the People Archives
In 1972 neither teachers nor staff at Newton North High School had heard about mosthelioma. Today they know a great deal about it. They were exposed to asbestos the first time they walked into the still unfinished high school in June 1972. For the next ten years they were exposed to low levels of asbestos whenever they entered the building. Theirs is the story of a struggle that lasted from 1972 to 1981 — a struggle of a few parents, teachers, and students to force the city to take action ...| Science for the People Archives
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