The CTSS was the first time sharing computer system and was developed by MIT in the 1960s by Fernando Corbato, an American physicist and computer scientist. The project was funded by DARPA and went online in 1963. It was developed on various IBM systems, including the 709, 7090, and 7094 at the MIT Computation Center. A system of many firsts, it was the first to have a password login, and had one of the first computerized text editing and formatting utilities. Early versions of email and instant messaging systems were also developed.
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
The first successful test of the point contact resistor occurs, creating a revolution in semiconductors. It would later replace the use of vacuum tubes in computers.
The BINAC computer is constructed by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., a fledgling company formed by John Eckert and John Mauchly.
Claude Shannon introduces the bit , the basic component of computation.
Norbert Wiener publishes "Cybernetics" , revolutionizing the study of artificial intelligence.
IBM completes the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator.