One way around this was to use a ' hybrid system ', most notably the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, where a microprocessor-based system controls an analog synthesizer, released in 1978.

With this low power consumption came the possibility of using solar cells as the power source, realised around 1978 by such calculators as the Royal Solar 1, Sharp EL-8026, and Teal Photon.

A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics, began to emerge in 1978 among bands scattered around the United States and Canada.

The first major scene of what came to be known as hardcore punk developed in Southern California in 1978 – 79, initially around such punk bands as The Germs and Fear.

By the 1970s, critics within the field such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight were using sci-fi to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction, and around 1978, Susan Wood and others introduced the pronunciation " skiffy ".

Beginning around 1978, the government of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) began an experiment in economic reform.

The United Nations launched Development Business in 1978 with the support of the World Bank, and other major development banks from around the world.

One of the longer-lived of these was a band called The Craze, which performed a few times around Northampton in 1978.

A part of his Future History and prequel to " Requiem ", it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing, in 1978, and the schemes of Delos D. Harriman, a businessman who is determined to personally reach and control the Moon.

These losses were sandwiched around a 1986 first-round sweep by the Capitals – the team's first exit without winning a playoff round since 1978.

Pioneer Venus Orbiter or Pioneer Venus 1 was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978.

Romanian rock band Sfinx worked from around 1975 through 1978 on what became one of the most appreciated Romanian progressive rock LPs, Zalmoxe.

Procter and Gamble started saving their shows around 1978.

The orbiter worked until 25 July 1978, returning almost 16, 000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.

It was placed in a 302 × 33, 176 km orbit and turned off on 25 July 1978 after returning almost 16, 000 images in about 700 – 706 orbits around Mars.

In late 1978, the first five episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard were filmed in and around Covington, Georgia.

So BBC engineers began talks with one or two television manufacturers, which led to early prototypes in around 1977 – 1978 that could control many more functions.

The 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole was filmed in and around Cottage Grove, as were parts of the 1978 movie Animal House.

Until its closure in 1978, the track hosted several important races that drew some of the top horses from around the United States including Hall of Famers War Admiral, Seabiscuit, and Gun Bow.

In 1992, the government of Mukilteo opposed plans to expand Paine Field ; Mayor Brian Sullivan said that the city disagrees " with the idea of a Sea-Tac north " and supports upholding a 1978 agreement between residents around Paine Field and Snohomish County.

The Department of Energy began studying Yucca Mountain in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for over ( 150 million pounds ) of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste currently stored at 121 sites around the nation.

Wolfsburg was founded on 1 July 1938 as the Nazis ' Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben (), a planned town around the village of Fallersleben to house the workers of the new Volkswagen factories, which were built to assemble the Volkswagen Beetle " people's car " and remain there today, although Beetle production there ended in 1978 ( it was transferred to Mexico for the final 25 years ).

They played to audiences around Austin and in 1978 recorded a full length album entitled Seven Worlds.

Although coined in the 1960s, and used as early as 1973 in reference to Sweet, the term " power pop " was not widely used until around 1978.

The long-suffering 49ers went 2 – 14 in 1978, the season before Walsh's arrival and repeated the same dismal record in his first season.

Together with fellow staff-member Kent Ford, Rubin announced at a 1975 meeting of the American Astronomical Society the discovery that most stars in spiral galaxies orbit at roughly the same speed, which implied that their mass densities were uniform well beyond the locations with most of the stars ( the galactic bulge ), a result independently found in 1978.

Boney M had a number one hit in the UK with a similar song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, which was not based on this one, although using the same text from Psalm 137.

In the same year, Gygax created the magazine The Strategic Review with himself as editor, and then he hired Tim Kask to assist in the transition of this magazine into the fantasy periodical The Dragon, with Gygax as writer, columnist, and publisher ( from 1978 to 1981 ).

Following the same tradition, modern 64-bit x86 processors are able to run most programs written for older chips, all the way back to the original 16-bit 8086 of 1978.

He is the only man to have made a century and take 8 wickets in an innings in the same Test match, 108 and 8 / 34 against Pakistan at Lord's in 1978.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Styling was the same from 1978 through 1979 and the body lacked both front and rear spoilers.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

He was also the fourth player, after Bart Starr ( 1966 ), Terry Bradshaw ( 1978 ), and Joe Montana ( 1989 ), to win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP during the same season.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

" Lipstick ", the B-side to " Promises ," shared the same ascending progression of notes in its chorus as Magazine's first single, " Shot By Both Sides ," also released in 1978.

In parallel with Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley formed a more experimental and post-punk band, The Tiller Boys, along with Eric Random and Francis Cookson, while Steve Garvey joined The Teardrops in 1978, along with The Fall's Tony Friel and Karl Burns ; both bands were releasing material in late 1970s and broke up at the same time as Buzzcocks.

Per capita GDP was at the same level as 1963, down a third from its 1978 peak ; and the purchasing power of the average salary was a third of its 1978 level.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

* Starlord was a weekly title ( originally intended to be monthly ) launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters that would later reappear in ABC Warriors.

These differences were levelled on 1 January 1978, when four territorially redeployed Regierungsbezirke replaced the two Verwaltungsbezirke and the old six Regierungsbezirke: Brunswick and Oldenburg as well as Aurich, Hanover ( remaining mostly the same ), Hildesheim, Lüneburg ( old ), Osnabrück and Stade.

During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.

After a series of less successful roles, including The Lady Vanishes, the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film of the same name, she dropped out of show business from 1978 to 1982.

In the unique experience in Hollywood, Zavattini written for the screen The Children of Sanchez ( 1978 ) based on Oscar Lewis ’ s book of the same title, a classic study of a Mexican family.

The same happened in 1978, when he supported a " national solidarity " government with the backing of the Italian Communist Party.

' It has taken a while for us to catch on, but now that his major work-' Life: A User's Manual ' ( 1978 )-has at last been translated into English it will be impossible for us to think of contemporary French writing in the same way again.