Newly-christened Texas Instruments, the company becomes the first to produce silicon transistors for the mass market and designs the world’s first transistor radio. Later this decade, Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit, enabling the digital revolution and forever changing the world.
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- 1987 - Perl is released via a newsgroup posting.
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The IAS computer is operational.
The first programming compiler, A-0 Compiler, is completed by Grace Hopper.
The 702, the first high speed magnetic tape storage system, is announced by IBM. It was typically sold alongside the IBM 701.
IBM begins to emerge with the IBM 701 computer. It's use of speed coding trimmed weeks off the programming schedule, and was the company's first electronic computer. 19 were sold to research companies, the federal government, and aircraft companies.
The AVIDAC computer is operational for the first time.
The Burroughs Adding Machine Company is renamed to Burroughs Corporation. The company would be second only to IBM in the mainframe market by the mid 1960s.
The first color television broadcast hits the airwaves.