An Ethernet adapter card for the IBM PC was released in 1982 and by 1985, 3Com had sold 100, 000.

A well-known class of IBM PC keyboards is the Model M. Introduced in 1985 and manufactured by IBM, Lexmark and Unicomp, the vast majority of Model M keyboards feature a buckling spring key design and many have fully swappable keycaps.

The development of OS / 2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the " Joint Development Agreement " in August 1985.

A group at Brown University ported version 9 to the IBM RT / PC, but problems with reading unaligned data on the RT forced an incompatible protocol change, leading to version 10 in late 1985.

In 1985, research on a second-generation RISC architecture started at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, producing the " AMERICA architecture "; in 1986, IBM Austin started developing the RS / 6000 series, based on that architecture.

In the 1980s he won a number of very strong tournaments, including Amsterdam IBM in 1981, Wijk aan Zee 1981, and 1985, Linares 1988, the 1989 Euwe Memorial, and the 1989 World Cup tournament in Rotterdam.

It was never widely used and essentially disappeared soon after the division was shut down in 1985, possibly because IBM and other companies settled on SQL as the standard.

It is based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format, introduced in 1985 on the Amiga 1000, the only difference being that multi-byte integers are in little-endian format, native to the 80x86 processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the big-endian format native to the 68k processor series used in Amiga and Apple Macintosh computers, where IFF files were heavily used.

PC DOS 3. 1 ( released March 1985 ) fixed the bugs in DOS 3. 00 and supported IBM's Network Adapter card on the IBM PC Network.

In June 1985, IBM and Microsoft signed a long-term Joint Development Agreement to share specified DOS code and create a new operating system from scratch, known at the time as Advanced DOS.

In 1985, IBM went forward with the token ring network scheme and a NetBIOS emulator was produced to allow NetBIOS-aware applications from the PC-Network era to work over this new design.

In a twist of fate, IBM, which years later became the sole owner of SBS, sold the satellite subsidiary back to MCI in 1985, the $ 400 million " purchase price ", in effect providing MCI with the financing it needed to continue its expansion.

The bank established a position as a leading European underwriter of Eurobonds and pulled off a major coup in 1985 by pricing a large bond offering for Nestlé, Rockwell, IBM, and Mobil at below market rates.

In 1985, company revenues were $ 126 million with $ 65 million from IBM 4214 production.

It wasn't until 1985 that Kaypro began producing IBM compatible MS-DOS machines, the Kaypro 16 ( transportable, same form factor as the Kaypro II ), the Kaypro PC, Kaypro 286i ( the first 286 IBM PC AT compatible ), the Kaypro 386, and the Kaypro 2000 ( a rugged aluminum-body battery-powered laptop with a detachable keyboard ).

In 1985, MicroStation 1. 0 was released as a DGN file read-only and plot program designed to run exclusively on the IBM PC-AT personal computer.

The 5364 was a June 1985 attempt by IBM to implement a System / 36 on PC-sized hardware.

With the overall home-computer market in decline — even while IBM could not meet the demand for its new PC AT business microcomputer — and likely unable to make a sufficient profit when the PCjr was sufficiently discounted to increase sales, the company discontinued it in March 1985 and, reportedly with more than 100, 000 leftover PCjrs, sold them at a large discount to its employees.

IBM PC clones in 1985 would not see any significant development in multimedia abilities for a few more years, and sampling would not become popular in other video game systems for several years.

In 1985 the companies Lotus and Intel introduced Expanded Memory Specification ( EMS ) 3. 0 for use in IBM PC compatible computers running MS-DOS.

In 1985, Norton Computing produced the Norton Editor, a programmer's text editor created by Stanley Reifel, and Norton Guides, a TSR program which showed reference information for assembly language and other IBM PC internals, but could also display other reference information compiled into the appropriate file format.

The Yamaha YM3812 also known as the OPL2 ( OPL is an acronym for FM Operator Type-L ) is a sound chip ( i. e. integrated circuit ) created by Yamaha Corporation in 1985 and famous for its wide use in IBM PC-based sound cards such as the AdLib and Sound Blaster.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

Practice of Universal precautions was introduced in 1985 – 88.

In June 1985, the computer readable CD-ROM ( read-only memory ) and, in 1990, CD-Recordable were introduced, also developed by both Sony and Philips.

The BBC also introduced a new prime time soap opera, EastEnders in 1985.

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

** 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

By way of contrast, when introduced in 1985, the Amiga had compared favorably against 286-based systems with EGA graphics and rudimentary sound capabilities that frequently cost 2 – 3 times as much.

Ethernet was commercially introduced in 1980 and standardized in 1985 as IEEE 802. 3.

In 1985, Minolta introduced a new autofocus SLR camera system named " Maxxum " in the United States.

The Bank of New Zealand introduced EFTPOS to New Zealand in 1985 through a pilot scheme with petrol stations.

Between 1983 and 1985, the government of Honduras — pumped up by massive infusions of external borrowing — had introduced expensive, high-tech infrastructure projects.

The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386, was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985.

In 1985, Sega's third-person arcade rail shooter game Space Harrier introduced a true analog flight stick, used for movement.

On January 19, 1985, he introduced Rich Little at the nationally-televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala, the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

The 68HC000, the first CMOS version of the 68000, was designed by Hitachi and jointly introduced in 1985.

The 68HC11 ( 6811 or HC11 for short ) is an 8-bit microcontroller ( µC ) family introduced by Motorola in 1985.

The Chevrolet Astro / GMC Safari and Ford Aerostar were introduced for the 1985 model year with FR layout.

However, its exchange-traded fund tracks the large-cap NASDAQ-100 index, which was introduced in 1985 alongside the NASDAQ 100 Financial Index.

The first model, introduced in 1985, was the Pad-8.

* 1985 – Term Object Database first introduced

National Geographic magazine introduced the American cultured pearl as a commercial product in their August 1985 issue.

From 1985 onwards, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to enact liberal reforms in the Soviet system, introduced the policies of glasnost ( openness ) and perestroika ( restructuring ) in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation in the country and democratise the government.

In April 1985, Nike introduced its own brand of basketball shoe which would become popular in its own right, the Air Jordan, named after the then-rookie Chicago Bulls basketball player, Michael Jordan.

* 1985 – Capital gains tax was introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke / Keating government.

The practice was introduced in 1985 – 88.