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Seagate ST506 - Hard Disk Drive
Founded by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner, Seagate Technology, develops the first 5.25 inch Hard Disk Drive for microcomputers. -
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Computer history - 1980s
A highlight of just some of the contributions from the 1980. -
IMB and Micro - soft (Windows of oppurtunity)
IBM released their personal computer with the MS - DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System. This was the beginning of many new personal computers to be released as well as the beginning of the GUI that we would later come to know as Windows. -
Flash Memory
In the early 1980s, while working at Toshiba, Fujio Masuoka invents the Flash Memory. Capable of being programmed, erased and reprogrammed this invention was not commercialized until 1987/1988. Found in the now common memory cards and USB flash drives. -
It's pronounced "Jif"
The bitmap imaging format known as GIF, Graphics Interchange Format, was developed by a team in 1987 led by Steve Wilhite. -
Birth of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN. The concept of the World Wide Web was to be a management system to allow information and documents to be accessible to different computer systems.
