The interior of a Casio scientific calculator from the late 1980s, showing the processor chip ( small square, top-middle, left ), keypad contacts ( 44 circles, inside back cover, right ; 44 matching contacts on a plastic sheet, left ), the back of the LCD display ( left side, top, marked 4L102E ), the battery compartment ( empty ) and other components.

The release of Derek Jarman's Jubilee ( 1978 ) marked the beginning of a successful period of UK art cinema, continuing into the 1980s with film-makers like Sally Potter.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

It marked his return to the Cleveland market, where Downey had been a host for crosstown radio station WERE ( 1300 AM ) in the early 1980s prior to joining KFBK.

The late 1980s were marked by a progressive warming of Congolese relations with Western countries, including the United States.

Bulgaria's economic advancement during the era came to an end in the 1980s, and the collapse of the Communist system in Eastern Europe marked a turning point for the country's development.

The 1970s and 1980s were further marked by a better understanding of the synaptic aspects of the action mechanisms of drugs.

The new literary generation of the 1980s was marked by the need to rebel, to act outside of the bounds of society — their work draws on the war generation ( Group 42 ), and is often brutal, aggressive, and vulgar ( Jáchym Topol, Petr Placák, Zuzana Brabcová ); postmodernism also influenced literature as a whole ( Jiří Kratochvil, Daniela Hodrová ).

This marked the beginning of a close relationship between Eastwood and Locke that would last six films and the beginning of a romance that would last into the late 1980s.

The film also served to popularize the then somewhat niche culture of bodybuilding, helping to inspire the fitness craze of the 1980s ; following the film's release, there was a marked increase in the number of commercial gyms in the United States.

The latter half of the 20th century was marked by steady growth that accelerated during the 1980s and led to an economic and population boom in the 1990s and 2000s.

Since the early 1980s, the People's Republic of China has been marked by progressive institutionalization and rule by consensus, and moved away from the Maoist authoritarian model.

Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had shifted to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style.

After eight previous nominations during the 1980s and 1990s, Khan received his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance in the major grosser Raja Hindustani ( 1996 ) and later earned his second Best Actor award for his performance in the Academy Award-nominated Lagaan, which also marked the debut of his own production company.

One of the final major buyouts of the 1980s proved to be its most ambitious and marked both a high water mark and a sign of the beginning of the end of the boom that had begun nearly a decade earlier.

State-sponsored doping in East Germany with hormones and anabolic steroids marked the rise of women from the German Democratic Republic in track and field from the late 1960s to the 1980s.

The 1970s and 1980s are marked by construction including the Periferico bypass ring around the city.

The 1980s were marked by several brawls that involved police intervention, one of the most bizarre trades in hockey history, and the tragic deaths of four players in a bus crash.

The 1980s marked a change in the structure of Latin American social protection programs.

This stands in marked contrast to the other 1979 Avco Cup finalist, the Oilers, who became one of the most successful teams during the 1980s.

Bulgaria marked significant progress in scientific research by sending two men in space and supplying 70 % of all electronics in the Eastern Bloc, but infrastructure remained poorly developed well into the late 1980s.

Although British road signs give distances in miles, British motorways have been marked out in kilometres since the 1980s.

In the 1980s there was a marked change of government economic policy: unprofitable heavy industry was no longer to be subsidised.

While attempts to restrict horse riding proved unsuccessful, by the late 1980s both walkers and riders were showing a marked preference for the growing network of high quality fire tracks.

With the climate of change throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s, the communist hegemony was challenged ( at the same time, the Milošević government began to gradually concentrate Yugoslav power in Serbia and calls for free multi-party elections were becoming louder.

For the most part, Cluster I consists of strains from the 1960s and 1970s, while Cluster II largely contains strains from the 1980s and 1990s, based on the change in the clone structure.

The history of the change of living conditions during the industrial revolution has been very controversial, and was the topic that from the 1950s to the 1980s caused most heated debate among economic and social historians.

State regulation of sea fisheries underwent drastic change in the late 1980s.

In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using the methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers ' rights and social change.

Towards the mid 1980s, however, things began to change.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

Although this gradual change in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s, a small acceleration of the process in the scientific literature was observed when the Food and Drug Administration started to use " gender " instead of " sex " in 1993.

A major change in the town centre road infrastructure was the construction of the ring road in the 1970s and 1980s, which relieved the town's growing congestion problem.

Due to the rapid pace of change, by the late 1980s, grievances over inflation, limited career prospects for students, and corruption of the party elite were growing rapidly.

Since neo-liberalism in the 1970 / 1980s and the emergence of the climate change crises, there has been abrupt evidence that the State is failing to effectively manage our environmental resources.

In the 1980s, many American-market vehicles used special " feedback " carburetors that could change the base mixture in response to signals from an exhaust gas oxygen sensor.

Tehran saw a drastic change in its ethno-social composition in the early 1980s.

After the initial euphoria of the Stonewall riots wore off, starting in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, there was a change in perception ; some gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual or transgender people.

The PC CPUs of the time had limitations in memory capacity and memory access protection, making them unsuitable to run OSes of this sophistication, but this, too, began to change in the late 1980s as PCs with the 32-bit 80386 with integrated paged MMUs became widely affordable.

) in the 1980s, is imprisoned for ecotage, but eventually cannot change anything.

Though Demers had presided over the resurgence of the Detroit Red Wings in the 1980s and helmed a Stanley Cup run in Montreal in 1993, he was unable to change the team's fortunes, and the Lightning ended up losing 55 games.

Although updating and revamping continued throughout the 1990s, the vast change seen during the 1980s did not.

A major change to the Centaur was made in the early 1980s.

Further in the 1980s according to Jan L. Harrington ( 2000 ) " the development of the object-oriented paradigm brought about a fundamental change in the way we look at data and the procedures that operate on data.

During the 1980s, the RSA worked with the Comino Foundation and established a Comino Fellowship Committee ' to change the cultural attitude to industry from one of lack of interest or dislike to one of concern and esteem '.

The change from 26 to 27 million years is expected based on a 3 % " stretch " in the geological timescale since the 1980s.

Changes in land use, particularly the urban renewal of the Docklands area, caused the project to extend the line beyond Charing Cross to change considerably in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Discovery in the 1980s of Hox genes and regulators conserved across multiple phyletic divisions began the process of addressing basic theoretical problems relating to gradualism, incremental change, and sources of novelty in evolution.

Of the goods producing industries, the metropolitan area has experienced the most change in manufacturing, peaking in the late 1980s with declining employment since then.