Saadaval oli ka 5¼" disk drive (5.25"_Floppy_disk) koos kassetisalvestus süsteemiga, mis kasutas helilinte(helikassette). Saadaval oli ka arvuliselt mänge ja värviline kahekordinaadilise juhtimisega väljundseade(värviplotter), mis printis 152mm laia paberteibi peale. Oktoober USA MS-DOS/PC-DOS-i operatsiooni süsteemi arendamine sai alguse. ? UK Lasti välja Sinclair ZX80, mis maksis alla 100 naela. ? Jaapan Arvutimäng Pac-Man lasti välja 1981 Aeg Koht Sündmus ? USA Xerox 8010 ('Star') System oli esimene kommertssüsteem, mis kasutas WIMP-i(Windows, ikoonid menüüd, osutamis süsteemid) graafika kasutaja liideseid. ? UK Sinclair ZX81 lasti välja, sarnase hinnaga oma eelkäijale(ZX80) August 12 USA IBM teatas oma IBM personal arvutist
Created special hardware for running LISP programs (mostly AI) efficiently.The whole system written in LISP. 21 founders: mostly from MIT AI lab. Revenue 35 millions by 1986, then decreases rapidly. Cost of a Symbolics machine in 1988 was between 36.000$ and 125.000$. Sun-X computer at that time started at 14.000$ Another Lisp machine company created at the same time: LMI LISP machine died even faster than Symbolics January Sinclair Research announces the ZX80 computer in the North American market. It uses a 3.25-MHz NEC Technologies 780-1 8-bit microprocessor, and comes with 1KB RAM and 4KB ROM. March Microsoft Corp. announces its first hardware product, the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II. This card gives the Apple II CP/M capability, contributing greatly to Apple Computer's success. The card includes CP/M and Microsoft's Disk BASIC, all for US$349. Satellite Software International ships WordPerfect 1.0 for Data General minicomputers. May