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The 80's was a decade of innovation and change, where technology began to transform our world in ways that were once unimaginable.
Personal computer
Personal computer
in 1982 came the IBM PC. IBM made big, mainframe computers for major corporations. By introducing the PC, IBM gave personal computers real credibility. Since the PC came from IBM, it had a strong reputation behind it. IBM PC in 1982. It cost about $2,000. It had 64 kilobytes of RAM and a single 360K 5.25-inch floppy disk. It had a monochrome screen and ran DOS 1.0. There was a BASIC interpreter built into ROM.
GameBoy
GameBoy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit, fourth generation, handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year. The Game Boy was commercially successful, selling 118.69 million units worldwide.
Pager
Pager
Pagers were developed in the 1950s and 1960s,and became widely used by the 1980s. A pager is a device that could receive and and send simple messages.Â
The compact disc
The compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage It uses the Compact Disc Digital Audio format which typically provides 74 minutes of audio on a disc. In later years, the compact disc was adapted for non-audio computer data storage purposes as CD-ROM.
Sony walkman
Sony walkman
The original Walkman started out as a portable cassette player it sold over 385 million Walkmans were be sold worldwide. Walkman cassette players were very popular during the 1980s, which led to "walkman" becoming an unofficial term for personal stereos of any producer or brand.
Answering machines became widely used after AT&T in 1984, which was when the machines became affordable and sales reached one million units per year in the US. Most americans looked forward to hear to the messages at the end of there day.
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