Do you know what happened 34 years ago today ?

By chance, that very day, I was driving my car to work when I heard the news. I know it's hard to believe, but it's the truth.

Good Luck!
Ric at Joes

I was 10 y.o. and hanging out in my friend's room when she came back from the living room, bawling. I thought her parents had told her a relative had died. They were such huge Elvis fans that they were just hysterical.I can remember her saying she wanted to die. This was coming from a 10 y.o. girl! I gave her a hug and left after she calmed down. It was surreal for sure and I was stunned; just kind of wandered home but don't remember how I got there.It was like the day the Challenger exploded, the 911 WTC live video feed, hearing Princess Di crashed. You hear about it, or see the images, but it seems so unreal.

I was 14 and we just moved in to a huge house out in the country. We ate dinner and watched the news, later we had ice cream.

Other highlites from 1977.....

- John Travolta teaches white guys howto dance in Saturday Night Fever.
- Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star in the greatest Sci Fi Movie ever made.
- The Apple II personal computers go on sale in Steve Jobs' first revolution in technology
- Jackie Gleason chases that "sum' bitch" Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit
- Nasa launches the Voyager spacecrafts to explore the outer limits of the Universe
- People got their first MRI's in the hospital
- The World Trade Center is completed in NYC

NO, you guys have it all wrong, today was Elvis's birthday - Michele B. told me so. LOL

Long live the King of Rock n' roll !

Does PJ remember how much the Apple II cost when it came out?

My parents bought an Apple IIc which I believe came out later....if I recall correctly the price tag was in the neighborhood of $1000 which incuded a 10 inch monitor. One of my all time favorite games was developed by Microsfot for the Apple II line...it was called "Crypt of Medea"

Elvis was one of a kind. The total package of looks, voice, and natural talent. I have been a fan most of my adult life and I continue to be amazed at the body of work he had.

Over 700 original studio recordings (sone good, some not)
31 movies (again, some good, some not)
Hundreds and hundreds of sold out shows in his lifetime.
One of two artists to be able to claim 1 billion in records sold.

May he rest in peace.

I bought an original Apple II, before the II+, IIe or anything. It was $1,295 and was an upgrade to 16K memory from the original 4K. (That's K as in thousand, NOT Meg as in million.) An additional 16K ran about $500. No monitor, no disc drive, no lower case letters, no high resolution graphics - just chunky color blocks. If you divided three by two the answer was one - it had no floating point math. You connected it to your TV, and software was saved and loaded via audio cassette.

For about twenty dollars I bought "Applesoft" software, which took up precious memory, but gave me floating point math and lower case letters. It was published by a little company in Redmond Washington...

That estimate sounds low. I can remember the original IBM pc's and how a 5.25" floppy disc cost (lowest memory storage) around $10 a piece. In other words a box of 10 low memory, inefficient 5.25" floppies originally cost $100. Now you can buy a 2 TB external hard drive for less.

The IBM pc was the chance for Bill Gates to shine. I can't remember the name of the other operating system, but it was far more expensive than MSDOS 1.0. The IBM PC is the computer that put Microsoft on the map.

I had a Commodore 64. I loved it at the time and actually wrote some BASIC programs. I worked part time with an employee who was a computer technician in Vietnam. I asked him what was the speed and memory of the main frame they used. He said it was 64K. I said "wait a minute, you mean my Commodore 64 is as powerful as your main frame in Vietnam?" He confirmed that fact.

The personal compter and other electronics are really the only thing I've seen where the technology is superior to prior years, but yet the price is much lower.