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1960s

1960

• ALGOL computer language devised.

1963

• DEC (Digital Equipment) build the first minicomputer.
• Bell Punch Company produce the first electronic calculator.
• Seymour Papert becomes co-director of the Artifical Intelligence Lab at MIT, along with Marvin Minsky

1964

• The first compatible family of computers introduced, the IBM System/360.

1965

• The first supercomputer introduced, the Control Data CD6600.
• The LISP symbol manipulation language originated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

1967

• Nicholas Negroponte founds the Architecture Machine Group at MIT. Its early work leads to the development of CAD (Computer Aided Design), and the desktop metaphor.

1968

• Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found the Intel Corporation. Their first memory chips stored 256 bits, but within four years, they were working on a chip which stored 16 times as much.
• Douglas Englebart, of Stanford Research Institute, demos his computer system, with mouse and windows at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco's Civic Centre.

1969

• Unix operating system developed at Bell Laboratories.
• ARPAnet, forerunner of the Internet, started by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a firm hired by Larry Roberts, head of computer communications projects at ARPA. It was the first nationwide computer communications network.
• Xerox Corporation buys Scientific Data Systems, for US$900 million.
• Bill Gates, 12, and Paul Allen, 14, make US$4,200 writing academic scheduling program for their school.

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