Creation of computer

By Claudio C

  • commodore

    Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer.

  • floppy drive

    Sony introduces the first 3 ½-inch floppy drives and diskettes in 1981

  • TIME

    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."

  • Liza computer

    Lisa is the first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI).

  • Apple

    Apple's Macintosh computer was already the most anticipated personal computer release ever.

  • C++

    The C++ programming language emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry when Bjarne Stroustrup publishes the book

  • Deskpro

    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

  • ACORN

    Acorn's ARM RISC microprocessor is first used in the company's Archimedes computer system.

  • TIN TOY

    Pixar´s Tin Toy becomes the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award, taking the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

  • IBM

    IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced.

  • Babbage's

    Based on Charles Babbage's second design for a mechanical calculating engine, a team at the Science Museum in London

  • BeBox

    Be, founded by former Apple executive Jean Louis Gassée and a number of former Apple

  • 3dfx

    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.

  • GTA

    Created by David Jones and Mike Dailly, Grand Theft Auto is set in Liberty City, a fictional American metropolis designed after New York City.

  • Furby

    The Furby ignites a 1998 holiday season buying frenzy, with resale prices reaching $300. Each Furby initially spoke only “Furbish”