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Roland releases the drum machine TR-808 which would end up revolutionizing music of all genres in the 1980s to a more electronic/futuristic sound. The drum machine Linn LM-1, also released in 1980, was the more expensive alternative to the TR-808. It became a staple of 1980s pop music.
This is the first time in history that a child has been born to somebody who is not their biological mother. 1989 May 22 – The first gene transfer experiment in humans takes place, leading to full-fledged gene therapy trials by September 1990. The gene responsible for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator was discovered.
View history; General ... Pages in category "1980s in technology" ... Timeline of computing 1980–1989; V. Videotape format war
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1980, and ended on 31 December 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
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.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] History of technology
1980: 3½-inch floppy (2-sided, 875 kB) N/A 1980: VIC-20: Commodore Business Machines 1981: IBM Personal Computer (8088 processor) IBM: 1981: MS-DOS 1.0: Microsoft: 1981 "Wet" solar cell: Bayer AG: 1982: Commodore 64: Commodore Business Machines 1982: First commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition: Kurzweil Applied Intelligence ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from simple stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s.