During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

During the mid-1980s, techno music emerged from the Detroit club scene.

During the mid-1980s, MacLeod and his then ex-wife Patti became Evangelical Christians and remarried.

During the mid-1980s, Telemap Group Ltd launched a fee-based service allowing users to connect their ZX Spectrums via a Prism Micro Products VTX5000 modem to a viewdata service known as Micronet 800, hosted by Prestel.

During the rule of Milton Obote and Idi Amin, who were both from northern Uganda, a significant number of northern Ugandans moved to Kampala from the 1950s until the mid-1980s.

During the early-and mid-1980s, development focused on large corporate office buildings in the emerging " Woodfield Center " along Golf Road.

During the mid-1980s, Tyner produced a single for Detroit band Vertical Pillows, and occasionally made brief guest appearances during some of their live shows, singing MC5 covers.

During the mid-1980s Hüsker Dü became SST's star attraction, their strong songwriting and increasingly melodic music becoming the key link between hardcore and the developing sound of college rock.

During this time, back lots were also built and remained standing at the studios until the management change of the mid-1980s.

During the mid-1980s, when Hainan Island was still part of the Guangdong Province, a fourteen-month episode of marketing zeal by Hainan Special District Administrator Lei Yu put Hainan's pursuit of provincial status under a cloud.

During the Bee Gees hiatus in the mid-1980s, he worked with Robin on the albums How Old Are You ?, Secret Agent and Walls Have Eyes and Maurice co-wrote " Shine, Shine " and " The Hunter ", both songs were released on Barry's 1984 album Now Voyager.

During the mid-1980s, Johnston toured U. S. clubs with a band called Border Patrol, which did not release any recordings.

During the mid-1980s, local commercial interests stated that they wanted more activity at Torp.

During the mid-1980s, she began a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied.

During the mid-1980s, Sgt.

During the mid-1980s, the text adventure market was thriving, although only a very few developers exclusively specialised in the genre.

During the early to mid-1980s Level 9 Computing dominated the UK text adventure market.

During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks.

During the mid-1980s, growth of this network began to put considerable strain on the resources voluntarily provided by the larger UUCP hubs.

During the mid-1980s, Bravo converted from a premium channel to a basic cable channel.

During this time he continued to teach at the University of Costa Rica and personally attended to customers at the gentleman's outfitters, El Palacio del Pantalón, that he had established in downtown San José in the mid-1980s.

During the period from about 1930 to the mid-1980s, the western part of the suburb between Homebush Bay and the railway line was taken up by chemical manufacturing.

During the Sandinista / Indian conflict in Nicaragua of the mid-1980s, Russell Means sided with Miskito Indians opposing the Sandinista government.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Czechoslovakia had imported substantial amounts of grain from the United States, but more abundant domestic harvests enabled the country to reduce these imports in the mid-1980s.

During the mid-1980s and early-1990s Thirlwell exclusively went by this pseudonym, even conducting interviews as Ruin.

During the first taping of the Late Show with David Letterman following the attacks, CBS newsman Dan Rather cried briefly as he quoted the fourth verse.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

During Rossini's stay in London in the summer of 1824, he composed his Duetto for cello and double bass for Dragonetti and the cellist David Salomons.

During the height of the reign of terror, David was an ardent supporter of radicals such as Robespierre and Marat, and twice offered up his life in their defense.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

During the making of the film and subsequent promotion campaign Phoenix stayed in character including a notorious interview with David Letterman and the film maker Casey Affleck maintained the ruse that the film was true, only later admitting that it was not.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

During the interview with David Mills, Griffin made numerous statements such as " Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world ".

During the 1983 election campaign his position as the prime minister designate for the SDP-Liberal Alliance was questioned by his close colleagues, as his campaign style was now regarded as ineffective ; the Liberal leader David Steel was considered to have a greater rapport with the electorate.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in Nazi-controlled states were made to wear yellow ribbons or stars of David, and were, along with Romas ( Gypsies ), discriminated against by the racial laws.

During this period, Twain made major television appearances on shows such as two performances on Late Show with David Letterman, Blockbuster Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards and the American Music Awards.

During the reformation Bishop Barlow ( 1536 – 48 ), a staunch Protestant, stripped the shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of David and Justinian.

During practice the day before Super Bowl VII, the Dolphins ' five foot seven, 150 pound kicker, Garo Yepremian, relaxed by throwing 30-yard passes to David Shula, Don Shula's son.

( During Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, David Marcus derisively refers to Starfleet as " the military.

During the third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so David M. Stern decided to write a Marge episode, which became " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ).

During the show's seventh season, star David Duchovny decided to leave the show, following a lawsuit against Fox.

During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after Naked the band went on " hiatus ".

During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album with Fatboy Slim, entitled Here Lies Love, which was released in April 2010.

During the filming of The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan had already approached Bruce Willis for the lead role of David Dunn.

During this time, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind and instructed her American agent to suggest her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version.

During the Great War the Liberal Party split into those led by former Premier Herbert Henry Asquith and the new Premier David Lloyd George.