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The 1980's

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1980

• First Optical Storage Disk was created by Philips
• It used lasers to write information onto the disk
  
• It had 60 times the capacity of a 5.25 floppy
  disk
• Could not be overwritten or erased

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1981

• MS-DOS became the standard operating system for
  the newly released IBM-PC
• Sony introduced and shipped the first 3 1/2"
  floppy drives and diskettes
• The Osborne I Portable computer was released
• It weighed 24 pounds, had a 5-inch display,
  contained 64 KB of memory, and contained two
  5.25 floppy drives.

All for only 1,795!!!!
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1982

• Computer was named Time Magazines Machine of
  the Year
• Disneys Tron became one of the first movies to
  use computer-generated graphics
• The Cray-XMP was produced, which ran at 420
  megaflops

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1983

• Compaq Computer Corp. introduced the first PC
  clone that used the same software as the IBM PC
• Microsoft Word was introduced
• Distributed 450,000 demo copies of Word in the
  November issue of PC World Magazine
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was
  first introduced at the first North American
  Music Manufacturers show in Los Angeles.

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1984

• The CD-ROM was released by Philips and Sony
• IBM released the PC Jr. and the PC-AT
• Based on the Intel 80286 chip
• Accommodated 1.2 MB 5.25 floppy disks

All for only 4,000!!!!!
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1985

• CD-ROMs came into widespread use
• Groliers Encyclopedia was the first CD-ROM
  product released
• The C programming language emerged as the
  dominant object-oriented language in the computer
  industry

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1986

• IBM and MIPS released the first RISC (Reduced
  Instruction Set Computer)-based workstations, the
  PC/RT and R2000-based systems.
• had 1 megabyte of RAM, a 1.2-megabyte floppy disk
  drive, 40MB hard drive, and ran at 2MHz
• Compaq released the Deskpro 386, which was the
  first to use the Intel 80386 chipset

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1987

• IBM introduced its PS/2 machines, which made the
  3 1/2-inch floppy disk drive and video graphics
  array standard for IBM computers
• IBM released OS/2 at the same time, which allowed
  the use of a mouse for the first time on an IBM
  computer

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1988

• IBMs Competitors developed the EISA 32-bit bus
  as an alternative to paying a fee to use IBMs
  MCA bus.
• Pixars "Tin Toy" became the first
  computer-animated film to win an Academy Award,
  taking the Oscar for best animated short film
• Robert Morris worm flooded the ARPANET
• Morris programmed the worm to reproduce itself
  and computer files and to filter through all the
  networked computers

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1989

• Motorola announced the 68040 microprocessor,
  which contained about 1.2 million transistors
• Eventually used in the Macintosh Quadra computers
• Maxis released Sim City
• Virtual Reality was introduced to the public at
  the Siggraphs 1989 convention in Boston