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Texas Instruments released its TI 99/4- "one of the fastest CPU's available in a home computer with a microprocessor running at 3 MHz."
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In May 1981, an young 18 year old from Illinois became the first known computer gaming fatality when he suffered a heart attack after 16,660 in the video game Berzerk. His name is Jeff Dailey.
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Apple releases the first portable computer with graphical user interface, called Lisa. GUI would become the standard for all commercial personal computers. 1983 also saw the release of a popular science fiction film "War Games."
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Apple next debuted the Apple Macintosh during a Super Bowl XVIII ad. Macintosh was the first successful mouse-driven computer with GUI.Link text
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Intel introduces the 80486 microprocessor and i860 co-processor chip that allowed speed of 33 MHz.
