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Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer.
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Sony introduces the first 3 ½-inch floppy drives and diskettes in 1981
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TIME magazine alters its annual tradition of naming a "Man of the Year," choosing instead to name the personal computer its "Machine of the Year."
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Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI).
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Apple's Macintosh computer was already the most anticipated personal computer release ever.
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The C++ programming language emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry when Bjarne Stroustrup publishes the book
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Compaq beats IBM to the market when it announces the Deskpro 386, the first computer on the market to use Intel´s new 80386 chip
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Acorn's ARM RISC microprocessor is first used in the company's Archimedes computer system.
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Pixar´s Tin Toy becomes the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award, taking the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
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IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced.
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Based on Charles Babbage's second design for a mechanical calculating engine, a team at the Science Museum in London
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Be, founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple
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The demand for high-quality video cards for personal computers grows throughout the 1990s as game companies create games with more complex audio-visual requirements.
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Created by David Jones and Mike Dailly, Grand Theft Auto is set in Liberty City, a fictional American metropolis designed after New York City.
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The Furby ignites a 1998 holiday season buying frenzy, with resale prices reaching $300. Each Furby initially spoke only “Furbish”