Timeline – ICT (80s)
In record time, IBM engineers used cheap components to build a desktop computer that would coin the term PC. There is an Intel 8088 processor and DOS 1.0 on board. The open character (only the BIOS is really protected) and the fairly low price ensure great demand. IBM Personal Computer…
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E.T. by Steven Spielberg is showing in cinemas and breaking all audience records.
The Commodore 64 (C64 for short, colloquially 64 or “bread box”) is an 8-bit home computer with 64 KB of RAM. Since its introduction in January 1982 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, the Commodore-built C64 was extremely popular in the mid to late 1980s as both a gaming computer…
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The first modem for data transmission over a telephone line is presented. ATTENTION – Modems were already available before, but not generally and worldwide for the Internet: A modem (short for modulator-demodulator) is a device that enables the exchange of digital signals between two digital devices over long distances. In…
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IBM launches the “8088 Portable” (the first PC laptop), which looks more like a toolbox than a computer.
Acorn introduces the ARM1, a 32-bit RISC processor, but it is rarely used. Only the ARM2 from 1986 was used in a computer. The prototype was presented on April 26, 1985 and delivered shortly later that year.
Nintendo’s NES games console comes onto the market in the USA – it becomes one of the most successful gaming platforms of all time and ensures a fantastic comeback of “console gaming”. Release was for the USA on October 18, 1985 but for the EU only on September 1, 1986.
The Amiga 500 appears and repeats the miracle of the C64 – albeit with more modest sales figures. Nevertheless, the “girlfriend” becomes the undisputed number one among home computers.
Intel terminates its licensing agreement with AMD. The result was a legal dispute lasting years and the beginning of an unequal duel that continues to this day. Unfortunately, no exact date is known, only the year.
ASTRA1A, the first commercial television satellite, is launched into orbit; More than a dozen satellites follow and help private television, which has been broadcasting since 1984, achieve a breakthrough.
