Technology progression timeline for CIS105

By robswanson30

  • Compact Disk invented by Sony and Philips

    The Compact Disk or CD was created which digitized music, photos, and data, and the CD was a big improvement over analog vinyl or tape.
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    1980's

    The decade of the 1980's in terms of the progression of technology

  • IBM PC or Personal Computer was released

    International Business Machines or IBM releases the first widely successful personal computer that many businesses adopted for office work

  • Nintendo Entertainment System video game system was released

    Nintendo of Japan releases their very video game console which became very successful worldwide

  • The Macintosh computer by Apple is released

    The first commercial Graphical User Interface (GUI) computer was released, right after the famous 1984 Super Bowl ad was run by Apple Computer.

  • Windows 1.0 was released by Microsoft Corporation

    The beginnings of the most widely used computer operating system, Windows, started in 1985 with Windows 1.0 which was mostly an extension of MS-DOS