Technology Of the 1960s

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  • Unimate, The first industrial robot

    Unimate, The first industrial robot
    Unimate was the first working industrial robot. It was created by Georgeg Devol in the 1950s and working on the assembly lines starting in 1961. picture:http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MTkyOTkyOQ

  • Spacewar! The first computer video game

    Spacewar! The first computer video game
    Spacewar! is a space combat video that was created in 1962. It was the first video game created for the computer. Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar_(video_game)

  • Touch Tone Telephones introduced

    Touch Tone Telephones introduced
    DTMF was first developed in the Bell System in the United States, and became known under the trademark Touch-Tone for use in push-button telephones supplied to telephone customers, starting in 1963 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signaling

  • Sketchpad

    Sketchpad
    Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad

  • Telcan the video recorder

    Telcan the video recorder
    The Telcan, produced by the UK Nottingham Electronic Valve Company in 1963, was the first home video recorder. It could be bought as a unit or in kit form for £60, equivalent to approximately £1,100 (over US$1,600) in 2014 currency. However, there were several drawbacks: it was expensive, not easy to assemble, and could only record 20 minutes at a time. It recorded in black-and-white, the only format available in the UK at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder

  • Compact Cassette

    Compact Cassette
    In 1962, Philips invented the Compact Cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe on 30 August 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show and in the United States (under the Norelco brand) in November 1964, with the trademark name Compact Cassette. The team at Philips was led by Lou Ottens in Hasselt, Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette#Before_the_Compact_Cassette

  • The Worlds First Supercomputer

    The Worlds First Supercomputer
    The CDC 6600 is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, outperforming its fastest predecessor, the IBM 7030 Stretch, roughly by a factor of three. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600

  • The first automatic teller machine

    The first automatic teller machine
    Barclays launched the first credit card in the UK, Barclaycard, in 1966. On 27 June 1967, Barclays deployed the world's first cash machine, in Enfield.[17][18] The British actor Reg Varney was the first one to use the machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclays#1946_to_1980

  • Magnavox Odyssey

    Magnavox Odyssey
    The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.The Odyssey was designed by Ralph H. Baer, assisted by engineers William Harrison and William Rusch. They began around 1966 and had a working prototype finished by 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

  • First demonstration of the computer mouse

    First demonstration of the computer mouse
    A few months after Telefunken started to sell the Rollkugel, Engelbart released his demo on 9 December 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#History