1980's

Seagate ST506 Hard Disk Drive

1980

Invented by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner.
Seagate Technologies created the first Hard Disk Drive(HDD) for microcomputers. The Disk Drive held 5 Megabytes of data, which at the time was more than any floppy disk, also fit in the space of the Floppy Disk Drive.

Apple Macintosh

Jan 24, 1984

Invented by Jeff Raskin
The Mac(Macintosh) was the first successful mouse drive computer with a Graphical User Interface. It was priced at $2,500 and came with Macpaint which made use of the mouse. It came with a 9 inch CRT moniter, a keyboard, mouse, and a single sided 400kb floppy disk drive. Before 500gb drives, and 1TB drives you would have to continuously swap out floppy disk to store more files or applications.

Delorean "Time Machine"

1985

(Fictional)
Invented by Dr. Emmet "Doc" Brown
The Delorean "Time Machine" was first unveiled at the Twin Pines Mall parking lot. It featured a unique flux capacitor and was powered by Plutonium. Once hitting 88 miles per hour and setting the dials to the time you wish to venture you would be transported to that desired time/era. Unfortunately the "Time machine" never caught on as it was used to disrupt the timeline for selfish reasons and it eventually was destroyed in 1885.

NES(Nintendo Entertainment System)

Oct 18, 1985

Invented by Nintendo
Originally called the Famicon(1985) back in Japan, the NES helped revitalize the Video Game Industry, introduce the world to well known characters such as Mario, and Link from the Legend of Zelda series, and also introduce the now business model allowing third party developers to produce and distribute games for the NES. It featured 2 controller ports, and an expansion slot for accessories.

Nintendo Game Boy Handheld

Jul 31, 1989

Invented by Nintendo
Before Nintendo Switch, before even the Nintendo DS, there was the Nintendo Gameboy. It was Nintendo's second handheld and the first Nintendo handheld that used cartridges for games. Some of the features it had was a green dot matrix screen, a single speaker with adjustable volume dial, and a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack. It is responsible for legendary games like Tetris and the cultural phenomenon known as Pokemon.

Apple Macintosh Portable

Sep 20, 1989

Invented by Apple
Before Laptops we had the Macintosh portable, the first battery-powered Mac(Macintosh). It featured a black and white active matrix LCD screen, a keyboard with trackball that could be moved to either side, and had 1.4 MB double sided floppy drive. Although being portable it didn't sell as well and was priced at over $6000 USD.