** The Atari 7800 is backward compatible with almost all Atari 2600 games.

** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game

** Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx.

** The Atari 2600 game system is released.

** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

** Circus Atari, a spinoff of the above game for the Atari 2600 console

** Atari DOS

** Atari TOS

** Atari TIA, combined sound and graphics chip, used in Atari 2600 and Atari 7800.

** Atari POKEY, used in Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, and certain Atari 7800 cartridges.

** Atari AMY, intended for the 65XEM, but never released.

** Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum computers ( same as General Instrument AY-3-8910 )

** Yamaha Y3439-F, used in the Atari Falcon, Atari STBook

** Atari 2600 homebrew

** RGB output can feed either RGB monitor or TV, old Atari SM124 monitor or a VGA monitor

** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.

** 8-bit CPU, 16-bit address space

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

** Commodore 128 ( or C128, CBM 128, or C = 128 ), a home / personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines

** Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer announced in 1980

** Indexed register indirect with 8-bit signed offset e. g. 8 ( A0, D0 ) or 8 ( A0, A1 )

** Relative with 8-bit signed offset with index, e. g. 8 ( PC, D2 )

** Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1. 79 MHz

** 8-bit data bus

** 8-bit instructions

** 8-bit single channel ( no DMA ), 16 kHz max using BIOS routines.

** Single precision – 36 bits: 1 sign bit, 8-bit characteristic, 27-bit mantissa

** 8-bit audio resolution

** 8-bit data bus

** Modern 8-bit and 16-bit Microcontroller chips, such as Atmel AVR and TI MSP430 chips, support JTAG programming and debugging.

** Atari 8-bit

** NCR 5380 " SCSI Controller " — 8-bit asynchronous transfers up to 4 MB / s.

** MOS Technology 8500 ( the 6510 / 8500 being a modified 6502 with an integrated 8-bit I / O port )

** Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation

** Commodore Semiconductor Group, also known as MOS Technology, Inc., famous for its various designs for Commodore Internationals range of home computers

** Human-computer interaction ( security ), the study of how people interact with computers concerning information security

** The first Apple II series computers go on sale.

** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.

** Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike.

** Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.

** controlling a large number of computers and directing them to attack as a group.

** The BIOS found in IBM-compatible personal computers

** Open Firmware, used in computers from Sun Microsystems, Apple, and Genesi

** ARCS ( computing ), used in computers from Silicon Graphics

** Kickstart, used in the Amiga line of computers ( POST, hardware init + Plug and Play auto-configuration of peripherals, kernel, etc.

** RTAS ( Run-Time Abstraction Services ), used in computers from IBM

** Windows for Workgroups used for networking peer-to-peer windows computers.

** Where a network of equipment or computers are interlinked through an MES ( Manufacturing Execution System )- or Host.

** Domain Name System ( DNS ), an hierarchical naming system for computers or any resource connected to the Internet

** CP / M computers based on the S-100 bus, maybe the earliest microcomputer platform

** SPARC architecture computers running Solaris operating systems

** David Cory, Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel, and at the same time Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang at MIT published the first papers realising gates for quantum computers based on bulk spin resonance, or thermal ensembles.

** Stratus VOS, a fault-tolerant operating system used in Stratus computers

** Computer form factor, the industry-standard physical dimensions of the major components of computers

** Pizza box form factor, a style of case, usually wide and flat, for computers or network switches

** Dartmouth Time Sharing System ( Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers )

** Unics ( later Unix ) ( AT & T, initially on DEC computers )

** H-High speed ( still produced but generally superseded by the S-series, used in 1970s era computers )