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Commodore releases the VIC-20 home computer as the successor to the Commodore PET personal computer. The first computer to sell more than a million units.
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The first IBM PC, formally known as the IBM Model 5150, was based on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft´s MS-DOS operating system.
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It sold more than 22 million units. It is recognized by the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest selling single computer of all time.
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Able to hold 550 megabytes of pre-recorded data, CD-ROMs grow out of music Compact Disks (CDs). The CD was developed by Sony and Philips in 1982 for distributing music.
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Over nearly twenty years, more than one hundred million Game Boys were sold, making it one of the all-time, top-selling game systems.
