You wake up, it's January 1st 1980.

[JPantaleo]

Your house has been transported to the past, you remember everything as usual in the OTL... So... what do you do next?

[catboy637]

ASB form. Please move it.

[Grey Wolf]

Go to school ? Or do you mean, I am me now aged as I am, living where I am but in 1980 ? In which case I've got some pretty neat gear and had better seek out Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar at once so I can make my fortune before the council throw me out for being an illegal tenant !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

[Spitfiremk1]

I'd start investing shares in a little company called Microsoft...

[dcver]

Debate with myself if I should try to stop 9/11, and if I chose to how I would. Also invest in companies that will do well. Possibly become a cheap fortune teller and predict what will happen using history

[Grey Wolf]

Originally Posted by dcver

Debate with myself if I should try to stop 9/11, and if I chose to how I would. Also invest in companies that will do well. Possibly become a cheap fortune teller and predict what will happen using history

Of course if you're correct, then what happened in "Branch Line" could happen to you !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

[Grimm Reaper]

I am disappeared by intelligence services once they spot my computer and see some of the books I own. Probably when I miss my second or third day of school and friends in middle school wonder why I'm suddenly...29.

[clintonforever]

If I'm an engineer, try to get in NASA and change O-ring design on Shuttle boosters.....proabably get ignored though....

[tallwingedgoat]

I'd make billions copyrighting my music collection. I'd create a venture capital firm to invest in some soon to be famous Silicon Valley startups. Also fund some key green technologies, give them a head start. Then I'd create a charity to address some of the social injustices of the last 30 yrs.

Try to seduce some 80s babes.

[Presbyman]

If they have political betting pools, it would be fun to predict exactly how the 1980 election will turn out.

Also, as Wimbeldon begins in 1985, place everything on a German teenager named Boris Becker. I assume you can bet on Wimbeldon even if it seems awfully vulgar to bet on tennis.

And what someone else said about Microsoft. I'd add Wal-Mart to that.

[Presbyman]

If they have political betting pools, it would be fun to predict exactly how the 1980 election will turn out.

Also, as Wimbeldon begins in 1985, place everything on a German teenager named Boris Becker. I assume you can bet on Wimbeldon even if it seems awfully vulgar to bet on tennis.

And what someone else said about Microsoft. I'd add Wal-Mart to that.

[Presbyman]

If they have political betting pools, it would be fun to predict exactly how the 1980 election will turn out.

Also, as Wimbeldon begins in 1985, place everything on a German teenager named Boris Becker. I assume you can bet on Wimbeldon even if it seems awfully vulgar to bet on tennis.

And what someone else said about Microsoft. I'd add Wal-Mart to that.

If I was in an evil mood I could give away the great plot twist in The Empire Strikes Back.

[MarkWhittington]

(1) Get rich with a little strategic investing and sports betting.
(2) Become a major campaign contributer to one Ronald Wilson Reagan. Also Newt Gingrich ad a few others.
(3) Write a book predicting "future trends" that of course I know in advance.
(4) se my wealth to start the equvilent of Fox News ten years early. Branch out into radio, magazines, newspapers, and eventually the Internet when it comes online to become the Bill Gates of media. This anticipates the end of the Fairness Doctrine. Use my power to run investigations of Bill Clinton and a few other future public enemies.
(5) Use my contacts with the Reagan administration to head off trouble; for instance, warning them that Ollie North is going to be a problem and needs transfering to some place where he can't do harm.

[Presbyman]

Originally Posted by MarkWhittington

(1) Get rich with a little strategic investing and sports betting.
(2) Become a major campaign contributer to one Ronald Wilson Reagan. Also Newt Gingrich ad a few others.
(3) Write a book predicting "future trends" that of course I know in advance.
(4) se my wealth to start the equvilent of Fox News ten years early. Branch out into radio, magazines, newspapers, and eventually the Internet when it comes online to become the Bill Gates of media. This anticipates the end of the Fairness Doctrine. Use my power to run investigations of Bill Clinton and a few other future public enemies.
(5) Use my contacts with the Reagan administration to head off trouble; for instance, warning them that Ollie North is going to be a problem and needs transfering to some place where he can't do harm.

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[clintonforever]

Get my hands on a Platinum edition of MJ's Thriller when it comes out....

Clinton lost his re-election bid for governor that year...so I would donate to Reagan's campaign....

Invest in Microsoft.....

Is there a way to prevent Micheal Jordan from getting picked by the Bulls?

[Dilvish]

If I was going back in time, I'd rather be 25 or 26 than my 41 years. Plus that means my pancreas is still working. I really don't know if I would want to remember everything about the future.

[President Al Bundy]

1. Place bets on sports events (If they are the same as in OTL), and make a lot of money.
2. Use the money to invest in companies, that were small in the 80's, but came out big in the 90's. Like Microsoft, or Nintendo. And of course, make more money.
3. Then I fund guerrila troops in Africa (But only under the premise, that they become liberal democracies after the revolution. If not, they won't get any money) and Asia. Money can move things you know.
4. If the revolutions succeed, I would establish companies with my money. You know, to give the people labour in Africa and Asia, and elsewhere where my revolutions succeeded. But not sweatshop-like companies. Fair pay, and enough worker's rights.
5. Then, bring the revolutionaire states together to form a new bloc.
6. Maybe convince Michael Jackson to do a therapy, or something else. So he won't end up like the person he was in his last years.
7. Fund enough money for the democratic campaigns in '84 and '88.
8. My final step, bring down the chinese government and maybe prevent the Tianamen massacre.

So if everything goes well, I'm one of the richest persons of the world, own some of the biggest companies on earth and have power over 1/3 of the world's governments.

Still, this should belong the ASB-Thread.

[RogueBeaver]

1. Ensure that Joe Clark wins a majority, thereby preventing PET destroying Canada's finances.

2. Warn Marcos that assassinating Aquino will send the economy into a tailspin and cause him to be ousted.
3. Cause bad weather over Delhi on June 23 1980, thereby Sanjay Gandhi survives

4. Tell Mrs. Gandhi to put her security in the hands of the Army

5. Tell her to pick Rajiv over Sanjay

6. Ensure that Mrs. Thatcher doesn't go off on a Eurosceptic tangent, thereby preventing her overthrow.

[wilcoxchar]

First I'd probably spend a few weeks in Boulder to see how the cities was 30 years ago at the tail end of the hippie and beat generation here. Then...not sure what I'd do, maybe go to Dallas to try and find my parents I guess.

Oh, and to everyone who thinks they can invest in companies, money looked different back then. You'll probably be arrested for trying to pass counterfeit bills.

[Tellus]

Hug my USB drive with Wikipedia on it, upload it on my BBS, and charge entry.

And buy Microsoft stock. Probably would have fun as a political advisor too.

Treasure my precious hardware, knowing I wont get another quad-core CPU that can run Prototype before 30 years. sigh.