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Seagate ST506 Hard Disk Drive
Seagate Technologies launched the first hard drive for micro computers. It was small enough to replace floppy disk drives. This allowed for 5 times as much storage space and would evolve to be modern day everyday drives. -
IBM launches first Personal Computer (PC)
These were standalone, predominantly word processing, basic math, basic games. But they were groundbreaking. I don’t think it would be relatable to the new generations the feeling of sitting down at a “computer”. Maybe it’ll be like that with VR in 30 years. -
Nintendo smashes Atari from the its top spot!! 😁
In 1983, Nintendo arrived in Japan and in America in 1985. Around ‘89/‘90, I remember jumping over my next door neighbors wall whenever their kids visited in the summer. I’d sneak in and play original Mario and Castlevania. It blew my mind, and I never wanted to stop. -
Sony Discman
In 1984 Sony launched the first discmans. I think I got my first in ‘97 and was raiding Best Buy for new CDs up to and through HS. That music changed my life. Especially once they got that anti-skip feature -
The program Deep Thought defeats Chess Player
Feng-hsiung Hsu‘s second generation chess playing computer program, Deep Thought, defeated chess master David Levy, becoming the first computer program to defeat a human.