On This Day

Log In

1963

1962 - Main index - 1964

Indexes - Pioneers, Organisations, Story

Details of categories

Ref: Day Month Timeline event Cat:
E545 Jan Ivan Sutherland at MIT creates Sketchpad - the forerunner of CAD systems 9
E546 May Kenro Murata and Kisaburo Nakazawa produce the Hitachi HITAC 5020 Mainframes 5
E547 1 Jul JCR 'Lick' Licklider funds from ARPA and then runs Project MAC 5
E548 Aug DEC PDP-5 12-bit computer 5
E549 Sep RAND Tablet 10
E3602 3 Oct MCI founded as Microwave Communications Inc, president was John D Goeken 11
E3603 Oct Clifford Berry, ABC computer, took his own life 5
E550 ASR-33 Teletype terminal 10
E551 Charlie Bachman develops the Marconi MYRIAD 5
E552 Edward Zajac at Bell Labs produces first computer generated film 9
E3604 English Electric and Leo Computers merged to become English Electric - Leo 5
E3605 Robert Norman at Fairchild developed a static RAM 4
E553 Fuzzy logic defined by Lofti Zadek at University of California Berkeley 5
E3606 Honeywell 200, a small business computer, launched 5
E554 IBM 1460 5
E555 IBM 1620 Model II system 5
E556 IBM 7094 - II 5
E557 IDS - Integrated Data Store 9
E558 J C R Licklider at ARPA meeting used the term Intergalactic Computer Network 11
E559 Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT developed 'Eliza' a computer 'therapist' 9
E560 MIT hackers come up with their own time sharing software incompatible timesharing system - ITS 9
E561 Mouse controller developed at ARC by Douglas Engelbart's team 10
E562 Scientific Data Systems SDS 930 transistorised computer 5
E563 Sumlock Anita - first fully electronic calculator 3
E564 The 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange established - ASCII 9
E565 The Rancho robotic arm 14
E3607 Tomiyama renamed as Tomy 7

1962 - Main index - 1964

Indexes - Pioneers, Organisations, Story

Details of categories