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 November 1990 (Japan) The best-selling 16-bit gaming console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or just “SNES”) ruled th...

Introduced October 1990 The Macintosh LC helps to demonstrate the tricky situation that Apple found itself in at the beginning of the 1990s...

Introduced September 1990 During the late 1980s Amstrad had been on a roll. The Amstrad CPC range had taken a respectable share of the hom...

IBM PS/1 Model 2011 Introduced June 1990 By 1990 the PC-compatible marketplace had changed a lot since the launch of the original IBM PC...

The video terminal is the unsung hero of the computing world. Often toiling aware in warehouse, factories, colleges, shops and other place...

Software... in a box! Introduced May 1990 By 1990 Microsoft’s Windows platform had been around for five years and had made pretty much n...

A Squarial on display Available March 1990 Direct-to-customer satellite television started in the late 1970s, but back in the early days...

Launched September 1990 (Europe) This month marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Nintendo Game Boy in Europe. This relatively s...