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The blurb I seen said they were released in 1979
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I owned two comic shops in the mid-1980s and set up at many card shows. There was almost nothing geared towards girls, so I'm surprised that these were around at the time.
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I think these were where their money went.

Tiger Beat, 16, Bop, and Seventeen. Anyone selling teen idol posters?

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The blurb I seen said they were released in 1979
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I owned two comic shops in the mid-1980s and set up at many card shows. There was almost nothing geared towards girls, so I'm surprised that these were around at the time.
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I think these were where their money went.

Tiger Beat, 16, Bop, and Seventeen. Anyone selling teen idol posters?
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When I had my shops, I sold a ton of Menudo stuff. These days, almost anything with either Ricky Martin or Draco Rosa will sell quickly. Not for big bucks but steady money.
I figured selling Menudo stuff would attract girls, and nothing brings in teenage boys like teenage girls. It didn't work out as I expected, but it opened the door s to my moving to Puerto Rico for two years.

Charles Schulz passed away on this day in 2000 and as per his wishes, the last original Peanuts strip ran the next day.
I was in second grade when A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired, and Linus reminded us of what the true meaning of Christmas is, was, and always will be.

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Charles Schulz passed away on this day in 2000 and as per his wishes, the last original Peanuts strip ran the next day.
I was in second grade when A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired, and Linus reminded us of what the true meaning of Christmas is, was, and always will be.
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Not exactly. The last strip was planned for months. It was just chance he died the same day. Sunday comics sections are printed days in advance.

In the late 1980s, the baseball market was truly the Wild West, as it was almost completely unregulated. People were producing unlicensed sets and selling out before anyone could stop them. I produced a set of American players playing in the Puerto Rican league. My partners thought 500 sets would flood the market, but producing 2500 sets cost about $300 more than producing 500, so we went large. They cost us $ 2,200 to produce the finished sets, and after a $45 ad, we sold over 1,000 in a week, and sold out in a month.
I produced a second set, consisting of West Coast players like Jose Canseco and Wally Joyner. Our lawyers said we should include those players in a set rather than do individual cards. We made 1500 sets and sold nearly half in a week. We ran afoul by using the name Big Apple Cards, as we didn't know there was already a company with that name. They quickly filed a cease-and-desist letter with us, and our lawyer told us we were screwed. The owners turned out to be pretty nice, and we agreed to take an ad out explaining the set had nothing to do with The Big Apple Card Company and that we'd stop selling them. I kept about a dozen sets, and we donated the remaining sets to a charity that distributed them to children in need in Central America. Soon afterwards, the leading publications agreed not to allow advertising for unlicensed products, and our little venture died on the vine, after producing only three sets.
I'm purging 90% of my baseball stuff, and while digging through it, I found ten sets of these. Looking it up on eBay, I see the set is now considered scarce and selling for about $100 each.

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20 MB hard drive! I got my first computer 1992 it was not a laptop but it wasn't much better than that. And it was extremely expensive like $1,500. But it was truly wonderful as pitiful as it was.

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20 MB hard drive! I got my first computer 1992 it was not a laptop but it wasn't much better than that. And it was extremely expensive like $1,500. But it was truly wonderful as pitiful as it was.
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The portables... those look like the next iteration of the Compaq Portable, Kaypro, or Seequa.

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20 MB hard drive! I got my first computer 1992 it was not a laptop but it wasn't much better than that. And it was extremely expensive like $1,500. But it was truly wonderful as pitiful as it was.
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My first hard drive was 5 MB, I would guess that was in the mid 1980's.

First laptop was in 1995. Was $2000.

Oh my gosh, anybody else remember these. 1975 state of the art and extraordinarily expensive. We were in awe.

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Oh my gosh, anybody else remember these. 1975 state of the art and extraordinarily expensive. We were in awe.

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Yes I do! I remember very distinctly a classmate who was always boasting of his family's wealth, because his father was a local politician, and all the expensive things they had and this was one of them.

Neither one of us really understood what it meant when a local politician (who was not wealthy separately from that) had a lot of money and expensive things. But yeah, he found out in a couple of years.

I used to watch this. Just noticed the original host died this last December.

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The Computer Chronicles from 1984 to 1989) is an American half-hour television series that was broadcast on PBS public television from 1984 to 2002.[2] It documented and explored the personal computer as it grew from its infancy in the early 1980s to its rise in the global market at the turn of the 21st century.[3] Series creator Stewart Cheifet served as main host throughout the show's existence.

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Oh my gosh, anybody else remember these. 1975 state of the art and extraordinarily expensive. We were in awe.

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The Betamax was a superior product to VHS but was more expensive because Sony held the patent, the consortium of VHS manufacturers created price competition so it buried the Betamax because of price.

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Oh my gosh, anybody else remember these. 1975 state of the art and extraordinarily expensive. We were in awe.

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The Betamax was a superior product to VHS but was more expensive because Sony held the patent, the consortium of VHS manufacturers created price competition so it buried the Betamax because of price.
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When Betamax first came out there was no video sale or rental industry and it was marketed as a broadcast TV recording device. That was a big deal back then, to not have to arrange your daily schedule around a broadcast schedule if you wanted to watch a particular thing. When Blockbuster first came out there were some Betamax tapes available but it was limited as VHS was much cheaper and they needed a large market, so that accelerated the decline of Betamax relative to VHS as I remember.

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Oh my gosh, anybody else remember these. 1975 state of the art and extraordinarily expensive. We were in awe.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1ZY93zJvu4Q
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The Betamax was a superior product to VHS but was more expensive because Sony held the patent, the consortium of VHS manufacturers created price competition so it buried the Betamax because of price.
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When Betamax first came out there was no video sale or rental industry and it was marketed as a broadcast TV recording device. That was a big deal back then, to not have to arrange your daily schedule around a broadcast schedule if you wanted to watch a particular thing. When Blockbuster first came out there were some Betamax tapes available but it was limited as VHS was much cheaper and they needed a large market, so that accelerated the decline of Betamax relative to VHS as I remember.
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In 1982 I bought the RCA VHS and it was $1,200 which was an incredible amount of money in 1982. You could buy a really nice used car for $1,200. But I owned the bar then and I could go home at 2:00 a.m. and watch prime time TV that I had recorded. At the time it was worth every penny to me.

The first video recorder I saw in a house was in 1981, when my friend's father bought a system in order to tape Masada. I remember it took forever to set it up right, and the tapes needed changing a few times an episode. They were ridiculously expensive- maybe $2,000.
I bought my Mom one for Christmas 1985, and she ended up getting me one, as well. They'd come way down by then.