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Present Day Computers from 1980-2003

Present Day Computers from 1980-2003. Kari Hale. 1980-1985. 1980-IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create a new operating system for a new PC and develop some new versions of some computer languages

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Present Day Computers from 1980-2003

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  1. Present Day Computers from 1980-2003 Kari Hale

  2. 1980-1985 • 1980-IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create a new operating system for a new PC and develop some new versions of some computer languages • 1981-Microsoft release MS-DOS 1.0 in August, Xerox introduces a graphic workstation, and a man named Adam Osborne developed first successful portable computer • 1982-Wordperfect 1.0, the most popular word processing program was released, Compaq is found with Texas Instruments and the Commodore 64 begins being sold at $200 which makes it the best selling computer of all time • 1983-More than 10 million computers are sold in the US this year • 1984-The 3.5-inch floppy diskette is introduced which later becomes an industry standard, the Computer Museum opens in downtown Boston and USC creates alarm about computer viruses • 1985-The GNU manifesto is published and Microsoft Windows 1.0 is shipped which has a graphical interface and allows the computer to be much easier to use

  3. 1986-1990 • 1986-Apple introduces the MAC plus which contained 1 megabyte of RAM and now more than 30 million computers are in use in the US • 1987-Microsoft introduces Windows 2.0, Powerpoint and Microsoft Works • 1988-Now 45 million computers are in use in the US, Creative Labs introduces the SoundBlaster sound card • 1989-Intel releases the new processor with more than 1 million transistors and multitasking capabilities and Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the first language that is used for homepages • 1990-Microsoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems and become each others biggest rivals

  4. 1991-1995 • 1991-Linux is introduced by Linus Torvald and The World Wide Web is launched • 1992-Microsoft introduces Windows 3.1 which sells more than 1 million copies within the first 2 months of release • 1993-President Bill Clinton puts the US White House online with a WWW page e-mail address for the President, Vice President first lady and Intel releases releases the Pentium Processor with a 60 MHz processor. The games DOOM and Must are released which are both turning points for the game genre • 1995-Live Script is renamed to JavaScript, a language many homepages use, Microsoft releases Windows 95 which sells more than 1 million copies in 4 days and the USB standard is released

  5. 1996-1999 • 1996-Intel releases the 200 MHz P6 • 1997-Digital Video Disc goes on sale, The NASA Pathfinder Web Site which is running real-time images sent from the Pathfinder on Mars receives more than 100 million hits during its first four days. The site sets a new popularity record. The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz is released. Advanced Graphics Ports are designed for video cards. It is now used in every computer today. • 1998-Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released and Apple computers introduces the iMac, a competitor to PC’s • 1999-The Intel Pentium III 500 MHz is released

  6. 2000-2003 • 2000-Many experts, governments and businesses feared that January 1, 2000 could cause serious issues with the date stamp on computers believing that cause many old computers relied off the last 2 digits of the year that the 00 would cause the computer to think that it was 1900. It was called the 2000 bug. In reality good preparation only caused a few glitches. In this year Microsoft Windows 2000 was released • 2001-Microsoft Windows Xp Home and professional additions are released • 2002-Approximately 1 billion computers have been released since the 1970’s • 2003-Wireless computers and internets have highest sales ever, cellular phones and handhelds are able to access the web. See a turning affect on many people using laptops instead of PC’s.

  7. Title Page and Information To learn more about computer during this time period you can go to http://ndl.wiki.wiki.nu/wiki Computer, Tools for an Information Age. HL Capron and J.A.Johnson. 2004 Also to see the web pages attached to this that tell you about the past and future of computers the link is www.angelfire.com/px6/computers/index.html

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