Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger | Challenger in 1984.

On June 28, 1984 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro, a 16-bit desktop computer using an Intel 8086 microprocessor running at 7. 14 MHz.

Untethered spacewalks were only performed on three missions in 1984 using the Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ), and on a flight test in 1994 of the Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue ( SAFER ).

* 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ).

In a later experiment in 1984, using the rotating drum technique, they were able to detect a spontaneous fission activity assigned to < sup > 260 </ sup > Sg, daughter of < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs.

In the official discovery of the element in 1984, the team at GSI studied the reaction using the alpha decay genetic correlation method.

However shielded twisted pair was used in IBM's Token Ring implementation, and in 1984 StarLAN showed the potential of simple unshielded twisted pair by using Cat3 — the same simple cable used for telephone systems.

In 1984, the Japanese survey vessel Takuyō ( 拓洋 ), collected data from the Mariana Trench using a narrow, multi-beam echo sounder ; it reported a maximum depth of 10, 924 m, also reported as 10, 920 ± 10 metres.

Somewhat more sophisticated calculations using 3-D GCMs ( Alexandrov and Stenchikov ( 1983 ); Covey, Schneider and Thompson ( 1984 ); produced similar results: temperature drops of between 20 and 40 ° C, though with regional variations.

The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.

In 1984, Herb Chen of the University of California at Irvine first pointed out the advantages of using heavy water as a detector for solar neutrinos.

On 1 January 1984, the Cuscatlan bridge over Lempa river in El Salvador, critical to flow of commercial and military traffic, was destroyed by guerilla forces using explosives after using mortar fire to " scatter " the bridge's guards, causing an estimated 3. 7 million dollars in required repairs, and considerably impacted El Salvadoran business and security.

The influence of liberation theology diminished after proponents were accused of using " Marxist concepts " leading to admonishment by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ) in 1984 and 1986.

After personal computers became more widespread, the first laser printer intended for a mass market was the HP LaserJet 8ppm, released in 1984, using a Canon engine controlled by HP software.

* RFC 906 – Bootstrap loading using TFTP, R. Finlayson, June 1984.

That program, Type Processor One, ran on an PC using a graphics card for a WYSIWYG display and was offered commercially by Bestinfo in 1984.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

Cheetah was originally planned to be manufactured using bipolar emitter-coupled logic ( ECL ) technology, but by 1984 complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ) technology afforded an increase in the level of circuit integration while improving transistor-logic performance.

At the time of Verilog's introduction ( 1984 ), Verilog represented a tremendous productivity improvement for circuit designers who were already using graphical schematic capture software and specially written software programs to document and simulate electronic circuits.

According to one study by Steinbach ( 1984 ), a classic interaction in NLP can be understood in terms of several major stages including establishing rapport, gathering information about a problem state and desired goals, using specific tools and techniques to make interventions, and integrating proposed changes into the client's life.

Producer Frank Marshall directed a second unit in Florida in January 1984, using alligators to double as crocodiles.

This 1984 Software Radio was a digital baseband receiver that provided programmable interference cancellation and demodulation for broadband signals, typically with thousands of adaptive filter taps, using multiple array processors accessing shared memory.

In 1984, paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski published a paper claiming that they had identified a statistical periodicity in extinction rates over the last 250 million years using various forms of time series analysis.

On 22 June 1984, Virgin Atlantic operated its inaugural scheduled service between Gatwick and Newark using a leased Boeing 747-200 ( registration G-VIRG ), christened Maiden Voyager, formerly operated by Aerolíneas Argentinas.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

It first became an official MLB statistic in 1984.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

The Bengals first used the " no-huddle " in 1984.

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

The first new television channels launched for carriage on cable systems ( going live in March 1984 ) were Sky Channel, Screensport, Music Box and TEN-The Movie Channel.

He started up Compaq's first overseas office in Munich in 1984.

In David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the first novel, De Vries was played by Brad Dourif.

Various executives, first at Tymshare and later at McDonnell Douglas ( which acquired Tymshare in 1984 ), expressed interest in his ideas, but never committed the funds or the people to further develop them.

In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first Unix implementation, called The Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( BIND ) Server.

She was first credited as Enya ( as opposed to Eithne ) for writing some of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince, which was released on a soundtrack album of the same title.

* 1984: Gateshead SIS / Tesco is first B2C online shopping and Mrs Snowball, 72, is the first online home shopper

* The ESS was first used in the social sciences by Robert Axelrod in his 1984 book The Evolution of Cooperation.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

The first EVA by a woman was performed by the soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984.