Technology

By Jacastro0723

  • Seagate creates the ST506 hard disk drive

    Seagate creates the ST506 hard disk drive
    Seagate creates the first hard disk drive for microcomputers. It held about 5 megabytes of data, and could hold five times the data of a floppy disk.
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  • IBM creates its first PC

    IBM creates its first PC
    The IBM Model 5150 was based on a 4.77 Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. IBM's design of the PC was widely copied and widely adopted by the industry. Which led to the creation of tons of software.

  • Novell develops LAN operating systems

    Novell develops LAN operating systems
    It established low level links between two computers moving files and software.

  • Bernoulli box is invented

    Bernoulli box is invented
    The Bernoulli box was cartridge-based used hard disk technology and had removable storage that allowed people to move big files.

  • The CD ROM

    The CD ROM
    Phillips and Sony invented the CD ROM and the CD ROM format

  • Apple releases the Macintosh

    Apple releases the Macintosh
    The Macintosh was the first mouse-driven computer and was based on a Motorola 68000 microprocessor. It was packaged with Macpaint, Macwrite. These programs demonstrated the mouses capability.

  • Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft develops the operating system Windows

  • Pixar was founded

    Pixar was founded
    Pixar paved the way for special effects and digital animation. Originally named the Special effects group at Lucasfilm, they worked on titles such as Star Trek II. They were later bought by Disney.

  • The Conner CP344 HDD is developed

    The Conner CP344 HDD is developed
    This HDD was more compact and could hold more data that Hard drives at the time.

  • Steve jobs creates the NeXT cube

    Steve jobs creates the NeXT cube
    The NeXT cube had 3 Motorola processors and 8 Megabytes of RAM. The NeXT cube has the MO drive which was a signal processor and the OPENSTEP operating system. It could multitask and had fast processing power and was able to develop software faster than any other computer at the time. All of these features were the foundations for the Mac OS.

  • Intel creates the 80486 micro processor

    Intel creates the 80486 micro processor
    This processor was hundreds of time stronger than any other processor at the time.

  • Microsoft creates Windows 3.0

    Microsoft creates Windows 3.0
    Microsoft creates windows version 3.0 which was more advanced than any other operating system at the time.