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1981 video games (188 P) Pages in category "Products introduced in 1981" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect ...
1981 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
April 26 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco, performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. June 5 – AIDS pandemic begins when the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an unusual cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
The polarizing McDonald's sandwich is turned 43 this year, having made its debut as a test item in 1981. As history has shown, the saucy, sloppy seasonal staple has developed a devoted fan base ...
The Osborne 1 is the first commercially successful portable computer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. [1] It weighs 24.5 lb (11.1 kg), cost US$1,795, and runs the CP/M 2.2 operating system.
March 1981 UK Sinclair ZX81 was released, for a similar price to the ZX80 (see 1980). 8 April 1981 US Osborne 1 portable computer introduced; the company sold many units before filing for bankruptcy only two years later. 12 August 1981 US IBM announced their open architecture IBM Personal Computer. [2] 100,000 orders were taken by Christmas ...
The 8088 motherboard was designed in 40 days, [25] with a working prototype created in four months, [13] demonstrated in January 1981. The design was essentially complete by April 1981, when it was handed off to the manufacturing team. [26] PCs were assembled in an IBM plant in Boca Raton, with components made at various IBM and third party ...
The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse (two-button), Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers, and email.