Apple I computer produced - the first Macintosh :-)
Cray Research, Inc. introduces its first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which can perform operations at a rate of 240,000,000 calculations per second.
British TV networks begin first teletext system.
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Apple I computer produced - the first Macintosh :-) Cray Research, Inc. introduces its first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which can perform operations at a rate of 240,000,000 calculations per second. British TV networks begin first teletext system. |
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J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus discover that the oncogene from Rous sarcoma virus is also found in the cells of normal animals, including humans (Nobel Prize, 1989). Proto-oncogenes are essential for normal development but can become cancer genes when cellular regulators are damaged or modified, e.g. by virus transduction. |
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First recorded outbreak of a previously unrecognised haemorrhagic fever in Zaire & Sudan 'Ebola disease': 500 diagnosed cases, 460 deaths!
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