Large Scale Integration (LSI) and very Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where hundreds of thousands of components placed in a Silicon Chip.
Development of the microprocessor
Milestones;
1977 Apple II
1979 TRS-80 Model II
1980 IBM PC
Shift from Mainframes to Microcomputers
VisiCalc on the Apple
Lotus 1-2-3 on the IBM PC
CP/M Operating System
MS-DOS operating system
ADA a common language for all US DoD applications developed.
Microcomputer Network storage
Public Bulletin boards
End-user computing
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1971 |
Ted Hoff of Intel develops the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 |
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Lexitron introduces a CRT-based word Processor |
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1973 |
Xerox develops the Smalltalk, the first "user-friendly" software |
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1974 |
Intel develops a general purpose microprocessor, the Intel 8080 |
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1975 |
MITS, Inc develops Altair, the first commercially successful personal computer |
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates form Microsoft Corporation |
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The U.S. Department of Defence sponsors the effort to design the ADA programming language |
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1976 |
Gary Kildall forms Digital Research to sell CP/M, the first commercially successful microcomputer operating system |
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WANG introduces a mulituser word processing computer system |
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Michael Schrayer develops Electric Pencil, the first microcomputer word processing software. |
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1977 |
Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak form Apple Corporation |
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1979 |
Dan Bricklin and Dan Fylstra develop Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet |
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Seymour Rubenstein of MicroPro develops WordStar, the first successful microcomputer word processing software. |
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Tandy Corporation introduces the TRS-80 Model II, the first commercially successful business microcomputer |
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1980 |
The U.S. Department of Justice deregulates the communications industry |
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1981 |
IBM introduces its personal computer, the IBM PC, using ISA (Industry standard Architecture). |
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Adam Osborne introduces the Osbourne 1, the first portable microcomputer |
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1982 |
The U.S. Department of Justice drops its Antitrust suit against IBM |
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1983 |
The U.S. Department of Justice allows AT&T to compete in the computer industry |
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Apple introduces the Lisa microcomputer |
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1984 |
Apple introduces the Macintosh microcomputer |
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1985 |
Founders Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak leave Apple Corporation |
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Expert systems and other application software packages applying artificial intelligence concepts appear |
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1986 |
IBM introduces its "laptop" computer the PC convertible |
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Intel introduces the 80386 chip, the 32-bit microprocessor for MS-DOS microcomputers |
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Compaq introduces the Deskpro 386, the first MS-DOS computer to use the 80386 chip |
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1987 |
Apple introduces the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II |
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IBM introduces the PS/2 family of microcomputers, using Micro channel architecture (MCA). |
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