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1975 - 1979
	1975	IBM introduces the first laser printer
	1976	The first commercial e-mail service, OnTyme, struggles to find a market for its product because of the installation requirements for its use
	1976	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the "Apple I" computer
1978- Photo courtesy of Apple Computer, Inc.	1977	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer Inc., and the Apple II computer sets the standard for personal computers
	1977	Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership and create Microsoft
Courtesy of the Commodore History Web Site, www.commodore.ca	1977	Commodore introduces the PET, a PC with a built-in monitor
	1978	Epson introduces the first successful dot matrix printer, the TX-80
	1978	The VAX 11/780 and the VMS operating system developed at DEC popularize the 32-bit architecture
	1978	The Wordstar program for word processing debuts
Getty Images/ PhotoDisk 2003	1978	Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adelman introduce RSA, a strong encryption algorithm for public-key cryptosystems
Louis Fabian Bachrach / Dan Bricklin	1979	Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston develop VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet
	1979	Motorola introduces the 68000 chip, which is later used for the Macintosh computer

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