Computer-related introductions in 1983

home video game console

family of RISC-based computer architectures

personal computer by Apple Inc.

MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Japanese market, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corporation. Microsoft and Nishi conceived the project as an attempt to create unified standards among various home computing system manufacturers of the period, in the same fashion as the VHS standard for home video tape machines. The first MSX computer sold to the public was a Mitsubishi ML-8000, released on October 21, 1983, thus marking its official relea

personal computer model

thumb|Casio PV-1000 joystick The is a third-generation home video game console manufactured by Casio and released in Japan in 1983. It was discontinued less than a year after release.

home computer

early portable computer

luggable version of the Commodore 64 computer

data storage cartridge format

home computer by Coleco, released in 1983

1983 model in the Apple II series of personal computers

Mattel Z80 home computer developed by Radofin

early portable computer

home computer

home computer

home computer

microcomputer

joint project to produce a distributed computing environment for educational use

Yugoslavian personal computer

home micro-computer marketed in France

minicomputer

peripheral from Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer

The SV-318 is the basic model of the Spectravideo range. It was fitted with a chiclet style keyboard, which was difficult to use, alongside a combination cursor pad/joystick. This is a disc-shaped affair with a hole in the centre; put a red plastic 'stick' in the hole and with a built-in joystick, remove the stick and it is a directional arrow pad for word processing etc. This machine also had only 16 KB of user RAM (plus an additional 16 KB of video RAM), which limited its usefulness. However, this could be expanded via an external peripheral box.

peripheral controller for the ZX Specrtrum

1980s 8-bit British home computer

computer model by Multitech (later Acer)

thumb|Texas Instruments TMS32020

thumb|DEC VT220 in use at The National Museum of Computing

third-generation home video game console released by Philips

Planned portable computer

IBM PC model containing 3270 terminal emulation hardware

Japanese home computer from 1983

historical computer

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The SV-328 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Spectravideo in June 1983. It was the business-targeted model of the Spectravideo range, sporting a compact full-travel keyboard with numeric keypad. It is considered the predecessor of the MSX computers. It had 64 KB RAM (64 KB available for software and 16 KB video memory), a respectable amount for its time. Other than the keyboard and RAM, this machine was identical to its little brother, the SV-318.

portable computer developed by Texas Instruments

The TK85 was a ZX81 clone made by Microdigital Eletrônica, a computer company located in Brazil. It came with 16 or 48 KB RAM, and had a ZX Spectrum–style case, similar to a Timex Sinclair 1500.

The SPC-1000 is the first Z80-based personal computer produced by Samsung. It was developed in South Korea, with built-in HuBASIC BASIC written by Hudson Soft in Japan. The computer features a 4MHz processor and 64KB of RAM.

Sinclair ZX81 clone from Lambda Electronics Limited of Hong Kong

The CompuMate SV010 was a home computer peripheral manufactured by Spectravideo International for the Atari 2600 home video game console. It was released on 6 January 1983 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

any of several models of computer mouse manufactured by Microsoft

computational model

personal computer

personal computer

Workstations line by Silicon Graphics

The COMX-35 was a home computer that was one of the very few systems to use the RCA 1802 microprocessor, the same microprocessor that is also used in some space probes. thumb|A COMX-35 computer The COMX-35 had a keyboard with an integrated joystick in place of cursor keys. It was relatively inexpensive and came with a large collection of software. COMX-35 was manufactured in Hong Kong by COMX World Operations Ltd and was released in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Finland, Norway, Italy, Singapore, Turkey and the People's Republic of China.

CP 300 was a personal microcomputer produced by Prológica, a computer company located in Brazil, and introduced in 1983.

The Sun-2 series of UNIX workstations and servers was launched by Sun Microsystems in November 1983. As the name suggests, the Sun-2 represented the second generation of Sun systems, superseding the original Sun-1 series. The Sun-2 series used a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 microprocessor with a proprietary Sun-2 Memory Management Unit (MMU), which enabled it to be the first Sun architecture to run a full virtual memory UNIX implementation, SunOS 1.0, based on 4.1BSD. Early Sun-2 models were based on the Intel Multibus architecture, with later models using VMEbus, which continued to be used in t

DVK (, Interactive Computing Complex) is a Soviet PDP-11-compatible personal computer. It was designed by the Research Institute of Precision Technology in Zelenograd.