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What
happened during these years?
On August 14, 1976, the USSR launched the Luna 24 vessel
to the moon, bringing back lunar samples.
Apple II
Released - 1977
The apple II featured a color screen, a built in version of
the BASIC computer language,
and cost approx. $1,300.00
The color monitor was introduced by Apple on their "Apple II"
computer - 1977
First Diesel
Car - 1977
The first diesel automobiles in the U.S. were unveiled by
General Motors. The
Oldsmobile 88 and 98 models were the first cars to feature the new engine.
The
device was first conceived in 1893 by German Inventor Rudolph Diesel.
First Test
Tube Baby Born - 1978
MS-DOS was
released by Microsoft - 1981
Personal
Computer - 1981
IBM announced it's first personal computer which was powered by a 4.77MHz
Intel
8088 microprocessor- the only 16-bit chip with an 8-bit bus available at
the time. The
system came with 64kb of RAM, a floppy drive, monochrome graphics, and the
Microsoft
PC DOS 1.0 operating system at a cost of $3000.00
The first Space Shuttle, the Columbia, was launched by
the US - 1981
Apple introduces the Graphical User Interface (displaying
graphics, not just text) to the personal computer. - 1983
Compact
Discs go on the market - 1983
First Computer
Virus Created- 1983
Len Adleman designed the virus to prove to security experts
that such a thing was
possible. The virus was implanted into a Unix VAX 11/750 system.
This virus never
escaped into the wild however.
Apple Computer, Inc. releases the new Macintosh series. - 1984
Dr. Steen M. Willadsen of Denmark clones the first sheep
from a developing embryo. - 1984
DNA Fingerprinting was invented - 1985
INTEL 386 - 1985
The intel 386 operated at a speed of 16MHz and could access
4GB of physical memory.
It was the first 32-bit microprocessor.
The Windows operating system was introduced by Microsoft,
enabling PCs to multitask, or switch from application to
application - 1985
First Trans-World Nonstop
Flight 1986
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