1987

The Railways freight computerization plans get delayed by another year, leading to an escalation in the cost to Rs1,200 crore from the original Rs500
crore.

KPP Nambiar took over from Dr DR Vijayakar as the DoE Secretary.

A host of companies released 386-based minis. Wipro released its Series-383 systems which supported Unix, Xenix, MS-DOS, and its own W-DOS.

The super computer deal finally came through in December and the country received the much-awaited Cray
XMP. 

Wipro became the first company to get a DoE certificate for its products. 

Apollo entered India through its tie-up with HCL for workstations.

Bull also entered the Indian shores; it tied up with PSI Systems. 

DEC made its Indian entry through Hinditron Computers.

dBase III came to India legally.

Steve Jobs launched the NeXT operating system.

HCL introduced M68030 machine called Horizon 030 running Unix Version 3.

The Burroughs-Sperry merger was formalized and the new company was called Unisys.

80386 chip creates waves. 

Micropro launches Wordstar 4.0 in the US market. 

IBM launches an array of entirely new computers called Personal System/2, marking its entry in the 80386 market.

Toshiba America Inc introduces 3.5" inch floppy with 2MB space.

Seiko-Epson develops the industry’s first color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) laptop. The 10" color LCD is capable of displaying 16 colors out of the standard 4,000 for table top models.