Macintosh

Computer Timeline for the 1980's

By Christy Bradley

  • 1981

    1981
    IBM introduces the first personal computer featuring Intel. Code named "Acorn", The computer was developed by 12 engineers in IBM Boca Raton research and development center.

  • 1984

    1984
    Steve Jobs of Apple introduces the first Macintosh. It had a graphical user interface or GUI, which provided a visual representation for what was previously lines of DOS code.

  • 1985

    1985
    Intel introduces the 386 TM microprocessor which was a 32 bit-chip that brought "multi-tasking" capabilities to the PC.

  • 1987

    1987
    Toshiba introduces the T1000 laptop PC. It had battery power and made portable computing more widely available.

  • 1989

    1989
    David Levy, chess player, was beaten by a computer. Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess. It was the second chess computer developed by Feng-hsiung Hsu.