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Ref:	Day	Month	Timeline event	Cat:
E497	25	Apr	Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit	4
E498	16	May	Theodore Maiman - Hughes Research Laboratory - developed the laser	10
E499		Jul	Russian Dnepr semi-conductor computer	5
E500	25	Jul	Sinclair Radionics founded	4
E501		Aug	Bell Labs' Darwin game	8
E502		Aug	IBM 7080 - BCD transistorised computer	5
E503		Sep	Max Palevsky's founded Scientific Development Corporation - SDS	5
E504		Oct	Claude Shannon's Minivac 601 computer kit	6
E3595		Oct	Pioneer IPO	2
E505		Nov	Fernando José Corbató and Tom Knight at MIT develop CTSS - Compatible Time Sharing System	9
E506			Alan Kotok's MIDAS PDP1 assembler	9
E3596			Bob Taylor joined NASA	11
E507			Burroughs B5000 Mainframes	5
E508			Don Spaulding's IBM SPREAD - Systems Programming Research Engineering and Development	5
E509			Fujitsu FACOM 222 computer - transistorised	5
E510			IBM 7040 - scaled down 7090	5
E511			IBM 7044 - expanded 7040	5
E512			IBM 7072 decimal computer	5
E513			IBM ACS1 - Advanced Computing Systems - a RISC supercomputer	5
E514			IBM Selectric typewriter	16
E3597			John Larry Kelly Jr developed Vocoder, and used it on an IBM 704 to play 'Daisy Daisy'	9
E515			LINC - Laboratory Instrument Computer - perhaps the 'first personal computer'	1
E516			Max Matthews programs an IBM 704 to play 'Daisy Daisy' - using notions developed at Bell Labs	9
E517			Paul Baran of RAND designs packet-switching - though does not call it that	11
E518			Peter Samson at MIT produces his Harmony Compiler music program	9
E519			Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations - PLATO	9
E3598			Sharp opened its Sharp Central Research Laboratories	2
E520			Unimate robot at General Motors	14
E521			USSR 5E92b computer	5
E3599			Victor Comptometer merged with Dorr Felt's operation	2

1960 - Main index - 1962

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