1980s Facts

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

In 1986, federal prisoner Ronald J. McIntosh escaped during an unsupervised prisoner transfer. Eight days later, he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend, bank robber Samantha Lopez, from federal prison in a daring daylight rescue.

John Hughes filmed The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off just eight months apart at the same high school in Illinois. He reused many of the same crew members and locations, and eagle-eyed viewers can spot identical hallways, lockers, and even some of the same posters on the walls.