It was 90% Armenian in the 1920s; the Azerbaijan SSR promoted immigration of Azerbaijani in the region between then and the 1980s, but it never went below 75%.
30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.