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, 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 this period Fred Giannelli, Dave Ball from Soft Cell, Richard Norris who later formed the Grid with Dave Ball, John Gosling, engineer Richard Evans and other techno artists released music not only as Psychic TV, but also a variety of ' fake ' names.

During their time off, the band had toured and briefly returned to their techno roots with the track " Scorpio ", which, although not appearing on any album, was included as the B-side of " Hands Around My Throat ", the first single from Scorpio Rising.

During the 2006 World Cup the anti-German German musician Torsun ( half of the group Egotronic ) recorded a techno cover of the song " Ten German Bombers ".

During the early nineties, XL Recordings releases were dance orientated ranging from Belgium techno ( T99 " Anasthasia ") to Breakbeat hardcore ( SL2 " On a Ragga Tip ") to Drum and Bass ( Jonny L " I'm Leavin '").

During the late 1980s, the Berggren siblings, along with Johnny Lindén and Nicklas Tränk, formed the techno band Tech Noir.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

During his time in Vienna, Salieri acquired great prestige as a composer and conductor, particularly of opera, but also of chamber and sacred music.

During this period he learned the music publishing business while continuing to compose.

During the next eight years, Andersson ( together with Ulvaeus ) wrote music for and produced eight studio albums with ABBA.

During his acceptance speech he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA's brand of pop music.

During the downtime, Murdoch has initiated the film and music project God Help the Girl, while Jackson and Kildea have toured with the reformed Vaselines.

During this time, whilst touring Japan, they conceived and started their second record label, Ninja Tune, which continues to release diverse music by like-minded artists.

During a competition routine, a squad performs carefully choreographed stunting, tumbling, jumping and dancing to their own custom music.

During this time he also started to experiment with ink and wash painting seen in work like Portrait of a Woman ( 1955 ) as well as creating portraits to illustrate the music surrounding him in Harlem.

During the mid-1970s, Hip-hop music and culture began to emerge, originating among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City.

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

During this time folk music began to become enmeshed with political and social activism themes and movements.

During his time at Leipzig, he was continually influenced by the music of Handel, whom he met earlier, in 1701.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

During the social and cultural climate of the ancient Eastern Jin Dynasty ( 316-420 AD ) based at Nanjing in the south, painting became one of the official pastimes of Confucian-taught bureaucratic officials and aristocrats ( along with music played by the guqin zither, writing fanciful calligraphy, and writing and reciting of poetry ).

During the second half of the 20th century, the sound of the harpsichord ( or perhaps rather more often, its electronically created equivalent ) became very familiar in popular culture, appearing frequently in popular music, television, films, computer games, and so on.

During the late 1880s, the strong influence of Spanish style is evident in Albéniz's music.

During the late 1970s in New York City, Jarmusch and his contemporaries were part of an alternative culture scene centered on the CBGB music club.

During this period, Brown's music empire also expanded along with his influence on the music scene.