This year we’ve covered gadgets and inventions from the 1800s and up. But there are plenty of other things that had anniversaries this year ...

Introduced December 1980 Although early microcomputers came in all sorts of different and incompatible varieties, they had a few things in c...

Introduced November 1980 Displays on early computer systems – and arcade games – tended to be divided into two categories. Most used a serie...

 Launched November 1980 The golden age of arcade games features many classic games that are still fondly remembered and played today, but o...

Introduced November 1980 The legendary Apple II series was one of the most successful computers ever, selling millions of units in a 16 year...

Introduced October 1980 It was the noise you remember most of all, the slow tortured screeching of metal pins hammering thousands of tiny b...

Introduced September 1980 The original TRS-80 (launched in 1977) was one of the “holy trinity” of early consumer-friendly microcomputers al...

Introduced 1980 Sometimes influential bits of technology are ones you might never have heard of. The PERQ Workstation is probably one of th...

Introduced 1980 Games consoles have been through several waves of being “a thing” to being “not a thing” and back to being “a thing” again. ...

Introduced 1980 Before the microcomputer boom of the late 1970s most computers were large, expensive but powerful multiuser machines (“...

Missile Command screenshot Introduced July 1980 It’s the height of the Cold War, and the possibility of nuclear annihilation is always...

Introduced in Japan, May 1980 The Golden Age of Arcade games is in full swing by May 1980, and it sees the launch of a gaming icon – Pac-...

Later model Indata DAI Personal Computer Introduced 1980 The early microcomputer market is full of hits and misses. Sometimes products f...

Acorn Atom Introduced 1980 The late 1970s saw the introduction of the first microcomputers that you could just take out of the box and u...

Nintendo Game & Watch - original "Ball" game Launched April 1980 Legend has it that one day Nintendo engineer Gunpei Yoko...

Introduced 1980 These days most of us carry around a powerful little computer with us all the time, but where did it all start? To go back...