Philippe Kahn The Apple Macintosh
- 1983 - IBM announces the PCjr
- Compaq begins shipping its Portable PC
- Tandy/Radio Shack announces its notebook TRS-80 Model 100
- John Sculley is Apple CEO
- Osborne Computer Corporation files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Philippe Kahn founds Borland International
- 1984 - Apple announces the Macintosh and runs its "1984" TV commercial during the Super Bowl
- Michael Dell starts Dell Computer
- Borland ships Turbo Pascal
- 1985 - Apple grants Microsoft a license to some of its graphical user interface (windowing) features
- Steve Jobs leaves Apple and founds NeXT Inc.
- Microsoft ships Windows 2.0
- 1987 - National Semiconductor buys Fairchild Seniconductor
- 1988 - Apple sues Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard for copy-right infringement
- NeXT unveils its first computer
- Pixar's Tin Toy is the first computer-animated film to receive an Acadamy Award for best animated short film