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New Year's Colors
The year in which Tandy Radio Shack produced the TRS-80 personal computer capable of displaying color. -
Beginning of a new thing
The Sinclair ZX80 would be released and become one of the important predecessors to modern laptops created by Jim Westwood of Cambridge. -
Teaching the masses
The BBC releases a program dedicated to teaching adults computer literacy with the intent of making people knowledgeable enough to use the new BBC micro. -
Storming the market
The Commodore company releases to great success the Commodore 64 for what was the spear head of technological advancement of the time, becoming the most renowned model of the 80s. -
The boom of Windows
In this year Apple released the first Windows OS as well as other Windows based software such as Microsoft word and more, making them a titan in the computing industry. -
The Interwebs
This year would become a massive one with the internet hitting 100,00 hosts making people see that computers were here to stay. This would come after the less successful launch in 1983 after being made by ARPANET.