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Event January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100. 22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [1] 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. Magazines became available which contained the code for various utilities and ...
The worm was launched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and caused considerable damage. In 1989, its creator became the first person indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . December – Europe obtains its first permanent connection to the Internet, by satellite between Princeton University and Stockholm, Sweden .
Current events; Random article; ... Category: 1980s in technology. 11 languages. ... Timeline of computing 1980–1989; V. Videotape format war
Timeline of computing presents events in the history of computing organized by ... 1980–1989, 1990–1999 ... Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology ...
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.
The principle is applied in wirephoto and television technology for a short time. Selenium is used in light meters for the next 50 years. Cinématographe camera by the Lumière brothers in 1895 (ref 86.5822) at the French Museum of Photography in Bièvres, Essonne, France. 1895: Auguste Lumiere's cinematograph displays moving images for the ...
NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race – Makes the first crewed Moon landing a reality. Lolo ball invented. 1971 Salyut 1, first space station, launched by Soviet Union. Runcorn Busway was the world's first bus rapid transit system. [47] 1973 – Stadtbahnwagen B hybrid tram developed.
1980s Lisp machines developed and marketed. First expert system shells and commercial applications. 1980 First National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) held at Stanford. 1981 Danny Hillis designs the connection machine, which utilizes parallel computing to bring new power to AI, and to computation in ...