Computer-related introductions in 1984

family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc.

a top level domain without country association

series of home computers produced by Amstrad

first Macintosh computer by Apple

computer display standard

home computer

thumb|Electrical engineer Martin Cooper (inventor)|Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007.

Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) is a universal lossless compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improvement to the LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978. Claimed advantages include: simple to implement and the potential for high throughput in a hardware implementation.

home computer

personal computer model

set of telephony signaling protocols

personal computer by Sinclair Research in 1984

microprocessor model

The Plus/4 is a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. It is part of the Commodore 264 series, which also includes the Commodore 16 and Commodore 116 models. The Plus/4 was marketed as "the productivity computer with software built in", with a four-application ROM-resident office suite: word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing software.

FamilySearch GEDCOM, or simply GEDCOM ( , acronym of Genealogical Data Communication), is an open file format and the de facto standard specification for storing genealogical data. It was developed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the operators of FamilySearch, to aid in the research and sharing of genealogical information. A common usage is as a standard format for the backup and transfer of family tree data between different genealogy software and websites, most of which support importing from and exporting to GEDCOM format.

field studying how people work in groups with the support of computing systems

personal computer by Apple

personal computer model

AppleWorks was an integrated office suite containing a word processor, database, and spreadsheet. It was developed by Rupert Lissner for Apple Computer, originally for the Apple II and launched in 1984. Many enhancements for AppleWorks were created, the most popular being the TimeOut series from Beagle Bros which extended the life of the Apple II version of AppleWorks. Appleworks was later reworked for the Macintosh platform.

motherboard form factor

IBM PC model released in 1984

Graphics adapter for early IBM PCs targeting CAD and professional users

Dhrystone is a synthetic computing benchmark program developed in 1984 by Reinhold P. Weicker intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. The Dhrystone grew to become representative of general processor (CPU) performance. The name "Dhrystone" is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called Whetstone, which emphasizes floating point performance.

1984 programming cartridge

line of workstation and server computer systems

personal computer

thumb|Spectravideo SVI-728 computer with tape drive in Helsinki Computer and game console museum. The SVI-728 is the first home computer from Spectravideo that complied fully with the MSX home computer specification. It was introduced in 1984. The design is virtually identical to that of the earlier SV-328, which did not comply fully with the MSX standard.

Palmtop pocket computer from Psion.

8-bit personal computer

Tiki-100 was a desktop home/personal computer manufactured by Tiki Data of Oslo, Norway. The computer was launched in the spring of 1984 under the original name Kontiki-100, and was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector, especially for primary schools. Early prototypes had 4 KB ROM, and the '100' in the machine's name was based on the total amount of memory in kilobytes.

supercomputer

8-bit computer

Home computer

1983 computer

laptop computer

computer storage magnetic tape format

1984 computer developed by Timex Portugal

1984 personal computer

IBM Personal Computer model released in 1984

original Apple Macintosh personal computer form-factor with a built-in screen

home computer model

laser printer model series produced by Hewlett-Packard

series of personal computer

Home computer introduced in 1984

programming language

Croatian personal computer

home computer

1981 laptop computer

home computer of 1983 produced by Mera-Elzab

home computer series sold in the GDR

thumb|Left: A MicroVAX 3600 with a disk drive on top. Right: A printer

Compis (COMPuter I Skolan) was a computer system intended for the general educational system in Sweden and sold to Swedish schools beginning in 1984 through the distributor Esselte Studium, who also was responsible for the software packages.

computer display standard

BinHex, originally short for "binary-to-hexadecimal", is a binary-to-text encoding system which was used on the classic Mac OS for sending binary files over email. BinHexed files take up more space than the original files, but avoid data corruption by software that is not 8-bit clean.

thumb|kremvax.DEMOS|demos[[.su, a follow-up server in 2007]] Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984, in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI (in Amsterdam) as an April Fool's prank—"because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time".

microcontroller

home computer

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