Computing in the 80s

By burrita
  • Commodore VIC 20

    Commodore VIC 20
    The first home computer which sold over a million units
  • MS-DOS released

    MS-DOS released
    The first operating system released by Microsoft was releasedd
  • Pac-Man

    Pac-Man
    Pac-Man was released for the Atari gaming system(late 70s). More copies of this game were sold than any other for the system at its time. This general time frame brought arcade games to home gaming systems
  • Apple MacIntosh

    Apple MacIntosh
    Introduced by Steve Jobs, and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.
  • Game-Boy released

    Game-Boy released
    40,000 Americans owned handheld computers in July 31, 1989, the day of the game-boy release