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- 1984 | Intel creates a 1 Kilobyte RAM chip.
German physicist Walter Schottky invents a semiconductor diode that increases bipolar logic and memory speed, he calls it the Schottky-Barrier Diode.
AT&T Bell Laboratories presents the multitasking virtual memory Unix.
First generally available Dynamic RAM 256-bit programmable semiconductor memory chip, the Intel 1103i.
MOS Dynamic RAM is invented.
The 256-byte erasable read-only memory EROM Intel 1701 chip.
Intel invents the CPU 14004 Microprocessor unit.
The erasable and programmable Read Only Memory or EPROM is launched.
First personal computer Kenbak-1with a 256-byte memory.
Hewlett-Packard presents the solid-state memory HP-35.
Control Data Corporation builds the 64-bit word CDC Star-100 vector computer.
Intel is granted patent for a digital multichip computer memory. This is a very important event for Intel in computer memory timeline 3.
Scelbi 8H with a 4-kilobytes internal memory and an Intel 8008 microprocessor.
MIT presents the Altair 8080 personal computer kit, with 256-bytes up to 12-kilobytes of memory boards.
American computer engineer Lee Felsenstein designs the first memory-mapped alphanumeric Video Display Module or VDM.
Cray Research presents the 64-bit word Cray-1.
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 desktop computer with 4 kilobytes memory.
Commodore Personal Electronic Transactor or PET with 4- up to 8-kilobytes memory.
Digital Equipment Corporation creates 32-bit VAX 11/780 with 4.3 gigabytes virtual memory device.
Intel 808616-bit processor.
The Motorola 68000 computer memory chip is developed.
The 5 1/2" Winchester disk drive floppy by Shugart and Associates.
The Osborne I 64-kilobytes memory and 2 FDD disk drives for 5 1/4" floppy's.
The Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, and the IBM PC are introduced.
The Apple Motorola 68000 Lisa with 1 megabyte RAM and the 64-bit Elxsi 6400 are is launched.
NOR and NAND flash memoryis invented by Toshiba.
The Apple Macintosh with 128KB of memory plus a 3.5" 400-kilobyte floppy disk drive, and the IBM PC Jr. and PC-AT Intel 80286 are presented. | Computer Memory Timeline 3 1 2 4
| Bibliography of the Computer Memory Timeline 3 Meyer, U, Sanders, P and Sibeyn, J (2003). Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies. Advanced Lectures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Memory Patent Mapping Report (2004). Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems.
Goldreich, O, Rosenberg, A and Selman, A L (2006). Theoretical Computer Science. Essays in Memory of Shimon Even. |
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