* 1982 – The first Compact Discs ( CDs ) are released to the public in Germany.

The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

From this trip, Marker first published the photo-essay Le Dépays in 1982, as well as using the experience for his next film Sans Soleil, released in 1982.

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982.

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

In 1982, they released their second studio album, Plastic Surgery Disasters.

A 1993 compilation called Lucky Thirteen was released, but it only covered Young's 1982 – 1988 output.

In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.

An Ethernet adapter card for the IBM PC was released in 1982 and by 1985, 3Com had sold 100, 000.

Although Coppola was not credited for his effort, according to one source, " by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders ' footage remained, and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere ' executive producer ' credit is just a technicality.

Charlie Ahearn's independently released fiction film Wild Style ( Wild Style, 1983 ), the early PBS documentary Style Wars ( 1983 ), hit songs such as " The Message " and " Planet Rock " and their accompanying music videos ( both 1982 ) contributed to a growing interest outside New York in all aspects of hip hop.

The closest successor to the Torana was the Camira, released in 1982 as Australia's version of GM's medium-sized " J-car ".

When released in 1982, the Camira initially generated good sales, which later declined because buyers considered the 1. 6-litre engine underpowered, and the car's build and ride quality below-average.

Previously unreleased studio and live material were added to these albums tracklistings and also released on the compilation Farewell Song in 1982.

The film was released in 1982, along with his television adaptation of the acclaimed play The Rainmaker.

Pop vocalist Dan Fogelberg composed the song " Run for the Roses " which was released in time for the 1982 running of the race.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

The third movie, Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, was released in 1982.

* 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

* 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

The Odyssey² was released in Japan in December 1982 by Kōton Trading Toitarii Enterprise ( コートン ・ トレーディング ・ トイタリー ・ エンタープライズ, a division of DINGU company ) under the name オデッセイ２ ( odessei2 ).

In 1982, a comic book adaptation of the film called A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade Runner was released by Marvel Comics.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

In 1982, work began to develop a European standard for digital cellular voice telephony when the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ( CEPT ) created the Groupe Spécial Mobile committee and provided a permanent group of technical support personnel, based in Paris.

Until 1982, the main civil telecommunications system in the UK was a state monopoly known ( since reorganisation in 1969 ) as Post Office Telecommunications.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 made extensive revisions to the " Title II " provisions regarding common carriers and repealed the judicial 1982 AT & T consent decree ( often referred to as the " modification of final judgment " or " MFJ ") that effectuated the breakup of AT & T's Bell System.

In 1982 Congress produced a report recommending changes called " Proposals for Revision of the Communications Act of 1934: Telecommunications Issues ".

* Ronald Rice and William Paisley, " The Green Thumb videotex experiment ", Telecommunications Policy, September 1982 </ ref >

Completed in 1982, it serves as the regional headquarters of BellSouth Telecommunications, which does business as AT & T Southeast, and was acquired as part of AT & T's acquisition of BellSouth.

A further analogue multiplex repeated submarine cable from Bournemouth to Grève D ' Azette was added jointly by the Telecommunications Board and recently branded British Telecom in 1982 after the takeover of the trunk system by the States of Jersey in 1973.

Mercury Communications was first licensed in 1982 ; and became a full Public Telecommunications Operator in 1984.

In 1982, ownership of the license was transferred from the University of Georgia to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission.

P * I * T * S Films was reincorporated as Embassy Telecommunications in 1982.

ELP Communications ( formerly known as Embassy Television, Embassy Telecommunications, and Embassy Communications ) is an American television production company that began in 1982.

* Property Rights In Radio Communication: The Key to the Reform of Telecommunications Regulation Milton Mueller The Cato Institute June 3, 1982

In a 1982 poll, she was voted fourth most recognisable woman in Britain, after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Mainstream British cinema also reflected a change in attitudes, with Heat and Dust ( 1982 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), although these did not directly address the experiences of minorities in Britain.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

** Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, GDW ( 1982 ), boardgame: part of GDW's Europa system.

In 1982, Irving made an attempt to unify all of the various neo-Nazi groups in Britain into one party called Focus, in which he would play a leading role.

* December 1982: The Gatwick Hilton, the first hotel in Britain to form part of an airport complex, opened.

Nicolaisen, Old European names in Britain, Nomina 6 pp37 – 42 ( 1982.

Howard's later works included such films as Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), Father Goose ( 1964 ), Morituri ( 1965 ), Von Ryan's Express ( 1965 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1968 ), Battle of Britain ( 1969 ), Ryan's Daughter ( 1970 ), Superman ( 1978 ), and Gandhi ( 1982 ).

Chapman died of a heart attack in 1982 at the age of 54, having begun life an innkeeper's son and ended a multi-millionaire industrialist in post-war Britain.

* Sendall, Bernard Independent Television in Britain: Volume 1-Origin and Foundation 1946-62 London: The Macmillan Press Ltd 1982 ( reprinted 1984 ) ISBN 0-333-30941-3

The record received a Gold status in Britain on 18 October 1982.

There is now an accepted record of transatlantic vagrancy by the American subspecies, with a juvenile being recorded in Scilly, Great Britain from October 1982 to June 1983.

The town won the " Wales in Bloom " competition for 27 times in a row between 1982 and 2010 ; won the " large village " category of " Britain in Bloom " four times ; and twice represented the United Kingdom in European competitions.

One Arctic Tern, ringed as a chick ( not yet able to fly ) on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast in eastern Great Britain in summer 1982, reached Melbourne, Australia in October 1982, a sea journey of over 22, 000 km ( 14, 000 statute miles ) in just three months from fledging — an average of over 240 km per day, and one of the longest journeys ever recorded for a bird.

With an election not due until May 1984, the Alliance proved to be an instant hit with voters who were disgruntled with the Conservatives and Labour, as many opinion polls in late 1981 and early 1982 showed the Alliance as the most popular political party in Britain, peaking with a 50 % showing-up to twice the level on support shown for the Conservatives around this time.

* Sendall, Bernard Independent Television in Britain: Volume 1-Origin and Foundation 1946-62 London: The Macmillan Press Ltd 1982 ( reprinted 1984 ) ISBN 0-333-30941-3

* 1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France

The Ford Cortina is a large family car built by Ford of Britain in various guises from 1962 to 1982.

A 1982 attempt to import a consignment of sex dolls into Britain had the unintended consequence of ending the law against importing " obscene or indecent " items that were not illegal to sell within the UK.

In 1982 she pursued another private prosecution, this time against Michael Bogdanov, the director of a National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, a play that " drew a direct parallel between the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain in 54 BC and the contemporary British presence in Northern Ireland.

The play became successful in the United States and in Britain, and won an Obie Award in 1982 for best play of the year.

* Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, A. Sutton, Gloucester, 1982.