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  • IBM PC 5150

    IBM PC 5150
    The first IBM PC, formally known as the IBM Model 5150. The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming the first PC to gain widespread adoption by industry. The IBM PC was widely copied (“cloned”) and led to the creation of a vast “ecosystem” of software, peripherals, and other commodities for use with the platform.
  • Apple Lisa

    Apple Lisa
    The Lisa computer was the first personal computer to use (GUI) graphical user interface. Which led to both Apple and Macintosh adopting the GUI as their interface as well.
  • Nintendo Entertainment System NES

    Nintendo Entertainment System NES
    Nintendo released its Famicom gaming system in Japan. Renamed the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) when it was released in North America, the NES started to reverse the fortunes of the American game industry.
  • Gameboy

    Gameboy
    A handheld electronic device that played games. Game Boy's popularity was helped by its major release title, the puzzle game Tetris. Over nearly twenty years, more than one hundred million Game Boys were sold, making it one of the all-time, top-selling game systems
  • Apple Mac Portable

    Apple Mac Portable
    Apples first portable computer . The Macintosh Portable was heavy, weighing sixteen pounds, and expensive (US$6,500). Sales were weaker than projected, and then The line was discontinued less than two years later.