But scrunchied-ponytails aside, it was also a decade of technological strides and advances — and some totally awesome gadgets ... of the good, old fashioned Casio C-80 Calculator Watch.

Here are 12 gadgets from the 80s that may not always go down in history ... knows they can be made to do a lot more than ...

In the very old days, people built radios and such on wooden ... power supply. While $80 doesn’t sound like that much, that was a third of the median US weekly salary in 1976.

From gadgets like the first digital watch ... It might look a bit like an old television, but the 1977 TRS-80 was actually one of the first microcomputers, and hobbyists loved it.

Kitchen gadgets were built to last, with a number of 20-, 30-, 40- and even 50-year-old whisks and mixers proudly ... And of course my mid-80s sandwich toaster from college is still going strong." ...

Here are some of my retro gadgets and trends I’m so ... but still have my old yellow Sports Sony Walkman from the 80s. I’m a little scared to use it, though, for fear it will eat my last ...

Dust off those bell-bottoms and polish your lava lamps, because we're about to embark on a groovy journey through time with 21 vinyl and retro music gadgets that'll make your old soul sing louder ...

Hundreds lined up in the freezing cold at Allentown's yard waste site on Fish Hatchery Road Saturday to get rid of those old gadgets collecting dust. "It's an old tube set and nobody even wants to ...

Seems like old hat today, but a revolutionary idea in ... At the peak, reports claim the average subscriber spent $0.80 a week (or about $1.22 a week if you exclude people who didn’t watch ...

Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you." '80s parents loved Texas Instrument's Speak and Spell because it was educational. '80s kids loved it for its awesome congratulatory voice. Boom boxes ...