1980-1999

History of Computing

**January 1, 1985 - Macintosh XL was released under the Compact family.**
==1985: The Atari ST came out, nicknamed the Jackintosh after the owner Jack Tramiel. It was priced under $1,000 and was a 8 MHz Motorola 68000 based computer. The Atari ST came out in 1985 and was invented by The Atari Corporation. It was invented for the purpose of being a competitor to Macintosh and the commodore Amiga systems. It worked though it’s Tramiel Operating System which made it faster and more efficient. It was successful until it was discontinued in 1993. ==


 * January 16, 1986 - Macintosh Plus was released with a price of $2599.**

//Commodore 64 - Wikimedia Foundation, 19 November 2011 Web. 22 January 2015//

The Commodore 64 was a home computer that was first introduced in January of 1982 as a prototype at the winter CES. After the successful VIC-20 introduced only a year before, the Commodore 64 was originally developed under the name VIC-30. It was released at a retail price of $595, which severely undercut competition such as Apple's Apple II computer. The Commodore 64 also had a technical advantage in the home-computing market. For its price, it offered high resolution graphics and clearly superior sound than that of the Tandy TRS-80.

T he computer only cost around $130 to make despite the $595 introductory price tag. It was sold in bulk to large retailers such as Sears which would then sell the computer at a loss in hopes that consumers would buy the numerous accessories. With superior graphics and sound, the Commodore 64 quickly dominated the home computing market share. With its increasing market, tons of programs such as computer games and word processors were written. It's simple user interface and programming language known as Commodore BASIC helped make programming it easily approachable:




 * LINUX KERNEL **


 * Linus Torvalds is the inventor of the Linux operating system. He was born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. His profession now is a software engineer and hacker. Linus’s major contribution to computer programming was the Linux Kernel which he created as a hobby in college. He is currently still alive. **


 * A free Operating System created by a 21 year old college student at the University Helsinki, Finland named Linus Torvalds. Linux Kernel was fist designed as a free operating system and was just a college student’s hobby and ended up being the most widely used Unix-Like operating system in the world today. The final idea was to create a free operating system with a complete free suite of free software to run on it. Linux has been a huge success and is still used today. **