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Date Location Event 29 January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100. [1]22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [2]June United States (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor.
The computers Byte (magazine) retrospectively called the "1977 Trinity" (L-R): Commodore PET 2001-8, Apple II, TRS-80 Model I. [1] Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were ...
Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012.
Bitsavers – an effort to capture, salvage, and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; A brief history of operating systems; Microsoft operating system time-line
Tandy 1000 computer Tandy 2000 computer. In the early 1980s, Tandy began producing a line of computers that were at first "MS-DOS compatible"--able to run MS-DOS and certain applications, but not fully compatible with every nuance of the original IBM PC systems--and later mostly, but not 100%, IBM PC compatible.
1980: 1987: Exited the computer business: Franklin Computer Corporation — United States: 1981: 1986: Exited the computer business; reorganized into Franklin Electronic Publishers: Friden, Inc. — United States: 1957: 1965: Acquired by Singer Corporation: Gateway, Inc. — United States: 1985: 2007: Acquired by Acer; brand revived in the ...
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Computer-related introductions in the ... (12 C, 3 P) Pages in category "1980s in computing" The following 6 ...