80's Timeline

By Jfletc1
  • Period: to

    80"s

  • The Seagate 506 Hard Drive

    The Seagate 506 Hard Drive

    The Seagate 506 Hard Drive was the first hard drive for mini computers.
  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer

    IBM releases their first personal computer. This is considered the first personal computer that many tech companies copied and cloned.
  • CD ROM

    CD ROM

    The CD Rom was developed by Sony and Philips for music sales. The First CD to be released was The encyclopedia and the 9 million words only took up 12 percent of the available storage space.
  • The Connection Machine

    The Connection Machine

    Created by Daniel Hillis, the connection machine was controversial at the time. It was a huge step in artificial intelligence and could process several billion operations each second.
  • Gameboy

    Gameboy

    Nintendo released the Gameboy. Although portable gaming systems had been out for 10 years at this point, the Gameboy had removable gaming cartridges and had a 2.9 inch screen.