Acquired by Stanford University in 1963, the Rancho Arm, a machine that is used as a human arm, holds a place among the first artificial robotic arms to be controlled by a computer. The dream has been fulfilled for the unfortunate children and adults that have been taken hold of a terrible disease and left without an arm. Researchers at the Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, California designed the Rancho Arm as a tool for the handicapped.
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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
ASCII [ American Standard Code for Information Interchange] is developed, allowing computers of different manufacturers to share data.
The Rancho arm is developed. The first artificial robotic arm controlled by a computer, it's six joints gave it the flexibility of a human arm and was designed as a tool for the handicapped.
J.C.R Licklider pens visionary memo to ARPA staff, "To Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network".
The first computer mouse is invented.
Development of the oNLine System begins.
Tandy buys Radio Shack.