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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.
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Popular home computers of the period [clarification needed] were fitted with various types of network interfaces [clarification needed] to allow sharing of files, large disk drives, and printers, and often allowed a teacher to interact with a student, supervise the system usage, and carry out administrative tasks from a host computer.
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.
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
R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.