1984 Timeline

|  | Information Research Services | Updated: 30 January 1998

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | February: DIGITAL announces the TK50 cartridge tape drive.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | April: DIGITAL announces the Rdb relational database management system.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | April: Introduction of the VAX-11/785, the most powerful single computer to date in DIGITAL's VAX family.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | June: DIGITAL introduces ULTRIX-32, the first native UNIX from DIGITAL for the VAX family of systems.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | September: VMS V4 ships.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | October: Announcement of the VAX 8600, the first of a new generation of computers within the VAX family and, at the time, the highest performance computer system in DIGITAL's history.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | October: Introduction of the VAXstation I, the company's first 32-bit single-user workstation.