Atlas Computer
Honeywell Kitchen Computer
Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS)
Honeywell 800
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The Honeywell 800 had its first installation in 1960 and was a transistorized electric computer. Spawned from a joint Honeywell/Raytheon project in 1955, the H-800 only sold 89 units. Honeywell released the 1800 and 1800-II later. It was capable of running a few different languages, including COBOL and FORTRAN.
Z-80 Softcard
Kenbak-1
SENDMSG
Xerox PARC
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Founded in 1969 by Jacob Goldman, Xerox’s then chief scientist. As a division of Xerox, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) contributed to the foundation of many modern computing concepts like laser printing, communications, programming, and most significantly, the graphical user interface (GUI). The facility opened in July of 1970…
ALGOL
Begun in 1958 by an international committee, the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), ALGOL was a hugely influential series of algorithmic programming languages. Culminating in ALGOL 60 in 1960, later languages were heavily influenced by ALGOL’s concepts for lexicon, structure, and syntax. It’s considered the first of the so called…