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Left the computer business; continued to make monitors until the late 1990s [3] [4] [5] American Computer and Peripheral — United States: 1985: 1990: Bankruptcy: American Micro Technology — United States: 1985: 1988: Dissolution: Ampere, Inc. — Japan: 1984: Unknown: Unknown: Amstrad — United Kingdom: 1984: 2007: Acquired by BSkyB ...
IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, in a full chess match. The computer had played him before, losing 5/6 games in February 1996. June 2 Intel released Pentium MMX, 233 MHz version. August 6 After 18 months of losses Apple Computer was in serious financial trouble. Microsoft ...
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based original design manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Quanta Computer pioneered the contract manufacturing of laptops in 1988. By 1990, Taiwanese companies manufactured 11% of the world's laptops.
R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.
Third-generation computers were offered well into the 1990s; for example the IBM ES9000 9X2 announced April 1994 [30] used 5,960 ECL chips to make a 10-way processor. [31] Other third-generation computers offered in the 1990s included the DEC VAX 9000 (1989), built from ECL gate arrays and custom chips, [32] and the Cray T90 (1995).
USA Apple Computer: Apple IIc Plus: 65C02: 1988: Monitor, TV: floppy disk drive: Apple: Portable, but not integrated like a modern laptop [citation needed] USA Apple Computer: Apple II Plus: 6502: 1979: Monitor, TV: floppy disk drive: Apple [citation needed] USA Apple Computer: Apple IIGS: 65C816: 1986: Monitor, TV: floppy disk, optional hard ...
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Date Location Event January United Kingdom (UK) Sinclair ZX80 was released for under £100.: 22 May Japan: The game Pac-Man was released. [1]June United States (US) Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor.