BASIC (Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a system developed at Dartmouth College in 1964 under the directory of J. Kemeny and T. Kurtz. It was implemented for the G.E.225. It was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that would be easy to translate. Furthermore, the designers wished it to be a stepping-stone for students to learn on of the more powerful languages such as FORTRAN or ALGOL.
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- 1938 - The first outline of the Harvard Mark I is circulated at IBM.
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M.I.T. introduces the TX-0, the first fully programmable, transistorized computer. It featured the first "bottled" transistor, hosted a 3-D tic tac toe game and a maze where mice found martinis and became increasingly drunk.
IBM takes another stride with the 305 RAMAC, the first computer to use magnetic disk storage.
The Bendix G-15 is produced by the Bendix Corporation.
IBM introduces the first hard disk drive.
The first cordless TV remote control is invented.
The Ferranti Pegasus 1 is operational.
FORTRAN is created, which enabled computers to perform repetitive tasks from a single set of instructions using loops. The first commercial FORTRAN program was run at Westinghouse.
Seymour Cray founds the Control Data Corp. (CDC)
In response to Sputnik, ARPA is created.
NCR emerges with their first transistor computer, the NCR 304.
Fairchild Semiconductor is founded.