Celebrating 22nd year in Avon, 40th year in Indiana
PC-COM turns 40 this year
Computer Key Events in 1986
- MS-DOS 3.2 was released in April 1986
- April 1986 -IBM's first laptops, weighing 12-18 lbs, with a clasmshell design and LCD display, running MS-DOS
- May 1986 - Compaq Deskpro 386 - first PC to use Intel's 80386 32-bit microprocessor, offering 4 MIPS performance and backwards compatibility with 16-bit systems
- IBM PC-RT - first commercial RISC-based workstation, 1MB RAM, 1.2MB floppy, 40MB hard drive
New Computer products introduced in 1986
- AT or 101 Keyboard introduced by IBM
- IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) was introduced by Western Digital and Compaq
- SCSI - 1 was the original SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
- IBM announced the IBM Personal Computer 2400 bps (bits per second) Modem, the IBM 5842
Computer Related Events in 1986
- Microsoft was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, selling shares to the public at $21 each
- The domain ibm.com came online on March 19, 1986
- the first cyber law, CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) was enacted in the United States
- Tandy announced the Color Computer 3 on July 30, 1986
- The first virus for IBM PC, Brain, appeared in January 1986
- the Hacker Manifesto was published in Phrack on January 8, 1986
- More than 30 million computers were in use in the United States