History of computing1980-1989

Lauren Matters

Adam Osborne

• In 1981 Adam Osborne created the first portable computer.

• It was called the Osborne 1. • It cost a massive $1,795. • The screen was 5 inches and the it had 64

kilobytes of memory. It also had 2 floppy disk drives.

William Gibson

• William Gibson was the pioneer of cyberspace.

• He came up with it in 1984.• Cyberspace is all the information and

everything to do with the internet.

Microsoft Word

• In 1983 Microsoft word was introduced. • It was originally called Multi-tool word and

Windows. • It didn’t come out until 1985 although it was

meant to be out in 1984. • They sold 450,000 disks. They demonstrated

the program in an issue of PC World Magazine to help sell it.

Commodore 64

• In 1982 the commodore 64 was introduced.• It was selling for $595. • There was 64kb of memory on it and the graphics

were very good. • The computer stoped being made in 1993. Over the

time it was around it sold 22 million computers. • It was so many computers that it made it into the

2006 Guinness world records for being the greatest single selling model of all time.

Reference

• http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/• http://www.the-wanderling.com• http://www.blog.tmcnet.com• http://www.cringely.com• http://www.topnews.in

• http://www.Mr Golley.com