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Microsoft releases MS-DOS 3.25.
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Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh Plus. It features a 8-MHz 68000
processor, 1 MB RAM, SCSI connector for hard drive support, a new keyboard
with cursor keys and numeric keypad, and an 800 KB 3.5-inch floppy drive.
Price is US$2600.
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Apple Computer introduces the LaserWriter Plus printer.
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John Sculley becomes chairman of Apple Computer.
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Compaq Computer reports third year revenues of US$503.9 million, a U.S. business
record.
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Eric Graham shows his "Juggler" demo animation on the Amiga, showing the
Amiga's capabilities of ray-traced animation merged with digitized sound.
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IBM announces the IBM RT Personal Computer, using RISC-based technology from
IBM's "801" project of the mid-70s. It is one of the first commercially-available
32-bit RISC-based computers. The base configuration has 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB
floppy, and 40 MB hard drive, for US$11,700. With performance of only 2 MIPS,
it is doomed from the beginning.
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Microsoft releases MS-DOS 3.2. It adds support for 3.5-inch 720 KB floppy
disk drives.
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The first issue of Amazing Computing for users of the Commodore Amiga is
published.
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Compaq Computer introduces the Compaq Portable II.
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Quarterdeck Office Systems ships DESQview 1.1.
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Quarterdeck Office Systems ships DESQview 1.2.
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Microsoft moves from Bellevue to Redmond, Washington.
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Microsoft releases a French version of Windows 1.02.
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Apple Computer acquires rights to publish a French database program, 4th
Dimension, in the US.
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The First International Conference on CD-ROM is held in Seattle, Washington,
hosted by Microsoft.
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IBM begins shipping the IBM RT PC.
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Microsoft first sells shares to the public, for US$21 per share. The initial
public offering raises US$61 million. Bill Gates quickly becomes the world's
youngest billionaire.
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Silicon Graphics decides to switch from the Motorola 68000 line to MIPS
Technologies' line of RISC processors.
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Burrell Smith and Michael Boich start Radius, Inc., to produce Apple Macintosh
enhancement products.
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IBM announces the IBM PC Convertible, 80C88-based, 256K RAM, and two 720K
floppy disks, for US$2000.
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IBM discontinues the IBM Portable PC.
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Satellite Software International ships Student WordPerfect for US$75.
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IBM boosts the speed of the IBM PC AT by replacing the CPU with a 8-MHz Intel
80286.
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Jim Manzi is named chief executive officer of Lotus Development Corp.
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Microsoft releases Microsoft Word 3.0 for DOS.
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Compaq Computer joins the Fortune 500 list faster than any company in history.
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Compaq Computer ships its 500,000th personal computer.
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Apple Computer discontinues the original Macintosh.
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Apple Computer discontinues the Macintosh 512K.
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Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh 512K Enhanced, for US$2000. It features
an 8-MHz 68000 processor, 512 KB RAM, and 800 KB 3.5-inch floppy drive.
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Satellite Software International changes its name to WordPerfect Corporation.
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Systems incorporating MIPS Technologies' R2000 processor begin shipping.
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Apple Computer discontinues the Macintosh XL.
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Jim Manzi is appointed chairman of Lotus Development.
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Byte by Byte releases Sculpt 3-D for the Amiga, the first 3-D modelling program
to ship for the Amiga.
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Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development, resigns.
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Intel ships the 80386.
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Microsoft announces Works for the Macintosh.
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Little-known company Advanced Logic Research announces the first 386-based
PC, the Access 386.
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Compaq Computer introduces the first 16-MHz Intel 80386-based PC, the Compaq
Deskpro 386.
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Apple Computer introduces the Apple IIGS, with the Apple 3.5 drive, for US$1000.
It uses the Western Digital Center W65C816 (65816) microprocessor, operating
at 1-MHz or 2.8-MHz.
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Apple Computer releases AppleWorks 2.0.
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Apple Computer introduces the Apple 3.5 drive for the Mac and the Apple IIGS.
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IBM announces the IBM PC-XT Model 286, with 640KB RAM, 1.2MB floppy drive,
20MB hard drive, serial/parallel ports, and keyboard for US$4000.
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Leon Williams is made president of MicroPro.
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Quarterdeck Office Systems ships DESQview 1.3.
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Steve Jobs decides to use the ill-fated erasable optical disk drives for
the first NeXT machine.
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WordPerfect ships WordPerfect 4.2 for US$500.
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Microsoft announces Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh.
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The first AmiEXPO is held, in New York City.
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Impulse releases Silver 1.0 for the Amiga.
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Ashton-Tate ships the one millionth copy of dBase.
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Lotus Development releases a French version of Lotus 1-2-3 v2.0 in France.
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Aldus PageMaker is released for the PC.
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WordPerfect ships WordPerfect for the Apple IIgs for US$180.
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AT&T creates the first silicon fabrication of its CRISP architecture
CPU, incorporating 172,163 transistors, and operating at 16-MHz.
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Amstrad takes over the Sinclair computer operation, in England.
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Microsoft purchases Dymanical Systems, Inc., makers of a TopView clone called
Mondrian.
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Inmos releases the T800 Transputer, a RISC processor with integrated
floating-point capabilities.
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Motorola begins work on the 88000 processor.
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Digital Research introduces its GEM operating environment for MS-DOS.
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MIPS Technologies unveils the 8-MHz R2000 32-bit CPU. With 110,000 transistors,
it achieves a speed rating of 5 MIPS.
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MIPS Technologies begins volume shipments of the R2000 processor.
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NexGen begins work on the design of a fifth generation x86 processor, called
the F86.
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Adobe introduces Adobe Illustrator, a PostScript drawing tool, for the Macintosh.
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Motorola announces the 68030 microprocessor. It uses about 300,000 transistors.
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Commodore releases Transformer software for the Amiga, which, along with
the Commodore 1020 5 1/4-inch disk drive, provides limited MS-DOS compatibility.
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NEC Home Electronics introduces its NEC JC-1401P3A Multisync monitor, the
first multisyncing monitor.
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Software Publishing Corporation introduces Harvard Presentation Graphics
for the PC.
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Ashton-Tate buys Decision Resources.
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IBM begins work on what would become the IBM RS/6000 series.
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Gateway 2000 ships its first PC.
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The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-1) standard is finalized as ANSI
X3.131-1986.
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AT&T produces a 32-bit CISC processor, the WE32100.
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