80's PC history

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    The GUI is here!

    Douglas Engelbart was an inventor that was part of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Development began in 1979 and was first implemented in 1981 on a Xerox computer called the "Alto".
  • CD's bring in new sound!

    CD's bring in new sound!
    Philips/Sony released the worlds first CD that was invented by James Russell.
  • The Jarvic 7 Artificial heart

    Robert Jarvik, MD had created the artificial heart.
  • The Cell Phone is born!

    The Cell Phone is born!
    An Engineer from Motorola named Martin Cooper, developed a hand-held phone known as the DynaTAC.
  • DNA fingerprint

    A geneticist at the University of Leicester in England. Dr. Alec Jeffreys created DNA finger printing after he made a discovery while studying heredity family disease