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.
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…
Space War may be the most important computer game ever. The first version was developed for the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960. The game has been under essentially constant development since. The first CRT display was a converted oscilloscope used to play Space War. The first trackball (and thus, the…
From the PDP-1 handbook, 1960 The Programmed Data Processor (PDP-1) is a high speed, solid state digital computer designed to operate with many types of input-output devices with no internal machine changes. It is a single address, single instruction, stored program computer with powerful program features. Five-megacycle circuits, a magnetic…