Programmeerimiskeel
Commodore's PET.
(fall) Personal Software company software publisher Dan Fylstra loans an Apple II to Dan
Bricklin to create his spreadsheet program.
(fall) Microsoft begins developing BASIC for the Intel 8086 processor.
Apple Computer begins work on a supercomputer with a bitsliced architecture, code-named
Lisa.
Taito releases the Space Invaders game to arcade centers.
Bally begins shipping its Bally Professional Arcade game.
Cinematronics releases Space Wars to arcades.
IBM scientist John Cocke produces the 801 computer, a RISC prototype named after the
laboratory building it was built in.
Tandy opens its first dedicated computer center.
Apple Computer begins research and development on what would become the Lisa.
Xerox donates 50 Alto computers to Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, and MIT.
Hermann Hauser founds Acorn Computers, in England.
1979
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