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The Great 80's

  • First Laptop Computer

    The first laptop computer was invented by Adam Osborne and it cost $1,795...this was the birth of the portable computer, today laptops are seen in many coffee shops around the world being used by customers to access the internet!
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    First Laptop

    The first laptop computer was invented by Adam Osborne and it cost $1,795...this was the birth of the portable computer, today laptops are seen in many coffee shops around the world being used by customers to access the internet!
  • First CD-Rom

    In 1982, Japanese company Denon developed what we know as a CD-ROM. This made it possible to install the early programs and software onto computers.
  • First Cell Phone

    Martin Cooper, the engineer from Motorola, developed the first hand-held phone that could connect over Bell's AMPS...the cell phone allowed people to communicate with others without a landline phone or even home phone service!
  • First Microsoft OS

    The original Windows 1 was Microsoft's first true attempt at a graphical user interface in 16-bit. Development was spearheaded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and ran on top of MS-DOS, which relied on command-line input
  • First Apple Laptop

    Before Steve Jobs came along and changed the the computer world ... Apple released its first “portable” Macintosh computer — and “portable” belongs in quotation marks, because Sisyphus might as well have been made to lift this thing up a hillside for eternity