This year we mostly concentrated on the year ending in "1", covering gadgets and technology from 1941 , 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1981 ...

Introduced December 1981 If you were to make a shortlist of microcomputers that epitomised the very peak of 8-bit technology, then the BBC M...

Introduced August 1981 Four years on from the launch of the holy trinity of the Apple II , Tandy TRS-80 and Commodore PET there was a rapi...

Introduced July 1961 and July 1981 Remember typewriters? You know, the obsolete technology that existed before the obsolete technology calle...

Introduced July 1981 Donkey Kong was the arcade game that established Nintendo as a success in the North American market – introducing two o...

Introduced June 1981 Early popular arcade games tended to be space-themed shoot-‘em-ups, which tended to appeal to male customers. However,...

Introduced June 1981 When Texas Instruments (often known as just “TI”) entered the home computer, it wasn’t a typical player. Most machines ...

Introduced April 1981 The sound of modems belongs to a certain era before ubiquitous broadband. The characteristic screeching noise – a bit ...

Introduced April 1981 By the early 1980s, hardware and software designers had great dreams about what they wanted products to be. Portable p...

Introduced April 1981 By 1981 the business microcomputer market was developing very rapidly. First generation 8-bit systems were giving way ...

Introduced April 1981 These days we take our computers everywhere – powerful smartphones, big-screen tablets and for more serious work, lapt...

Launched March 1981 By early 1981 the microcomputer revolution was well underway, with plenty of options available for people wanting to dip...