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Telephone : First patented
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floppy Disk was developed
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8mm Home Movie Camera was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker
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Microcassettem Voice Recorder was introduced by Olympus
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Most telephones used
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Dot Matrix Printer
The LA30 was a 30 character/second dot matrix printer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts -
Floppy Disk became commercially available
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microcassette Voice Recorder devices for recording in stereo were produced
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CD Rom was created by Sony and Philips
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CD Rom was published
One of a set of color-bound books that contain the technical specifications for all CD formats, the Yellow Book, created by Sony and Philips in 1988, was the first extension of Compact Disc Digital Audio