| Ref: |
Day |
Month |
Timeline event |
Cat: |
| E1080 |
|
Jan |
IBM 5110 'Portable' Computer |
1 |
| E1081 |
|
Jan |
Jef Raskin joins Apple as Publications Manager - goes on to develop Lisa and Mac |
1 |
| E1082 |
|
Jan |
Sequoia Capital and Venrock Associates invest in Apple |
1 |
| E1083 |
|
Jan |
Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss develop the first bulletin board CBBS - Computerised Bulletin Board System |
12 |
| E1084 |
9 |
Mar |
1BSD UNIX - Berkeley Software Distribution - released |
9 |
| E3728 |
|
Mar |
Hudson Soft enters the game software market in support of Nintendo's Famicom console |
8 |
| E1085 |
|
Apr |
Hayes 80-103A modem |
10 |
| E1086 |
|
Apr |
Microsoft launches COBOL-80 for CP/M computers |
9 |
| E1087 |
|
Aug |
Exidy Sorcerer launched |
1 |
| E1088 |
3 |
May |
Gary Thuerk at DEC creates first SPAM mailing to ARPANET users |
9 |
| E3729 |
|
May |
Michael Donald Wise (Sphere computer kit) founded A-Systems Corporation that specialised in software for the construction industry |
1 |
| E1089 |
|
May |
IMSAI hits monthly sales of $1 million |
1 |
| E1090 |
|
May |
Intel 8086 - 16-bit MPU |
4 |
| E1091 |
|
Jun |
Epson TX-80 printer |
10 |
| E1092 |
|
Jun |
Tomohiro Nishikado at Taito develops the Space Invaders coin-op game |
8 |
| E1093 |
|
Jul |
ITT Director Programmable Controller |
4 |
| E3730 |
|
Jul |
Eikichi Kawasaki founded SNK Playmore Co |
7 |
| E1094 |
|
Jul |
TI's Starburst watch |
4 |
| E1095 |
|
Aug |
MicroPro Int'l launched WordMaster text editor and SuperSort a sort-merge program |
9 |
| E1096 |
|
Aug |
NEC TK-80 computer kit |
6 |
| E3731 |
|
Sep |
MicroPro International Corp founded by Seymour Rubinstein and John Robbins Barnaby, developed WordStar |
9 |
| E1097 |
|
Sep |
Hitachi PageMaster MB-6880 word processor |
1 |
| E1098 |
|
Sep |
Toshiba JW-10 word processor |
1 |
| E1099 |
|
Dec |
Chris Curry and Herman Hauser found Acorn Computers and launched the Acorn computer |
1 |
| E1100 |
|
Dec |
Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer launched |
10 |
| E1101 |
|
Dec |
Microsoft celebrates its first year of >$1m sales by moving to Seattle |
9 |
| E1102 |
|
Dec |
Transam Triton |
1 |
| E1103 |
|
|
Apple II Europlus |
1 |
| E1104 |
|
|
AppleWriter written by Paul Lutus acquired by Apple for $7500 |
9 |
| E3732 |
|
|
Bill Gates and Gary Kildall discuss a merger, no deal! |
9 |
| E1105 |
|
|
Bill Joy while at UCB releases C shell - a UNIX shell |
9 |
| E1106 |
|
|
BT's IPSS launched - International Packet Switched Service |
11 |
| E1107 |
|
|
CII France designs the Ada language |
9 |
| E1108 |
|
|
Commodore PET 4000 |
1 |
| E3733 |
|
|
CPU Limited, Cambridge Processor Unit, founded by Chris Curry and Herman Hauser |
1 |
| E1109 |
|
|
David Ahl's 101 BASIC Games |
8 |
| E1110 |
|
|
DECWAR - first multi-player computer game |
8 |
| E1111 |
|
|
George Perlegos develops the EEPROM at Intel |
4 |
| E1112 |
|
|
GSX - Graphics System Extension - later became DRI's GEM |
9 |
| E1113 |
|
|
Iann Barron's INMOS launched SRAMs - Static Random Access Memories |
4 |
| E1114 |
|
|
IBM 801 experimental microcomputer - first to use RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
1 |
| E1115 |
|
|
John Draper - aka Cap'n Crunch - develops the EasyWriter WP for Apple II |
9 |
| E3734 |
|
|
John Warnock recruited by Chuck Geschke to join Xerox PARC |
9 |
| E1116 |
|
|
Laser Disc system launched |
16 |
| E1117 |
|
|
Microsoft and DRI discuss a merger - no deal is agreed |
9 |
| E1118 |
|
|
Mike Fischer and Mike O’Regan's Research Machines 380Z |
1 |
| E1119 |
|
|
Motorola launched the 6801 MPU and 6809 MPU |
4 |
| E1120 |
|
|
NAPLPS videotex graphics standard - North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax |
12 |
| E3735 |
|
|
NEB in the UK decides to support the creation of a British Apple |
1 |
| E1121 |
|
|
Ohio Scientific Superboard II |
1 |
| E3736 |
|
|
Peachtree Software founded by Ben Dyer, John Hayes, Steve Mann and Ron Roberts |
9 |
| E3737 |
|
|
Ralph Baer launches the 'Simon' game |
7 |
| E1122 |
|
|
R2E Prologue multitask system derived from Sysmic |
9 |
| E1123 |
|
|
RLIN - Research Libraries Information Network |
15 |
| E1124 |
|
|
SAP AG'S SAP R/2 financial accounting package |
9 |
| E1125 |
|
|
Sargon chess program by Dan and Kathe Spracklen |
9 |
| E1126 |
|
|
Scott Adam's Adventureland text game for TRS-80 |
8 |
| E1127 |
|
|
Seymour Rubinstein, Robb Barnaby and Jim Fox develop WordStar |
9 |
| E1128 |
|
|
Sharp MZ-40K and MZ-80C computer kits launched |
6 |
| E1129 |
|
|
Alan Kay's Smalltalk-78 |
9 |
| E1130 |
|
|
Starfleet Orion by John Connelley and Jon Freeman of Automated Solutions (later Epyx) |
8 |
| E3738 |
|
|
The Beatles sued Apple computer for infringement of its brand |
1 |
| E1131 |
|
|
TI SR-60 programmable calcualtor |
3 |
| E1132 |
|
|
TI TMS9980 MPU |
4 |
| E3739 |
|
|
Tiger Electronics founded by Randy Rissman and Roger Shiffman |
7 |
| E1133 |
|
|
TinyTROLL - later becomes VisiPlot and VisiTrend |
9 |
| E1134 |
|
|
TI's Speak n' Spell/ Little Professor and Spelling B |
3 |
| E1135 |
|
|
Wavemate Bullet a CP/M based computer |
1 |
| E3740 |
|
|
Western Design Center Inc founded by Bill Mensch |
4 |
| E1136 |
|
|
Xerox 9700 laser printer released |
10 |
| E1137 |
|
|
Xerox PARC donates 50 Altos to colleges including Carnegie-Mellon/ MIT/ Stanford etc |
10 |
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