IBM PC launched
1981 · Event
IBM introduces the personal computer based on Intel 8088 and MS-DOS; sets industry standard; "PC compatible" emerges.
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Around 1981
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- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)