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Which came first: Breakout or the IBM PC?

Breakout came first, in 1976 (released). The IBM PC followed 5 years later, in 1981 (released).

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  1. First1976

    Breakout

    game · released

    Breakout, from 1976, was built with help from Steve Wozniak.

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  2. Second1981

    The IBM PC

    product · released

    The basic IBM PC of 1981 came with 16 kilobytes of memory.

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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.