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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 timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] History of technology
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 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.
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 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.