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COBOL (reference)
In the early 1960’s a team of people formed together and created COBOL ( common business oriented language) which was designed for business use. COBOL aimed to make computers programs easier to access. -
IBM 1311 Disk storage Drive( reference)
The IBM 1311 Disk storage Drive was first announced on October 11, 1962. This storage drive was the first storage drive made with a removable disk packed. Each of these disks packets had six disks in them and weighted about 10 pounds in total. While the IBM was on these disks would rotate about 1,500 RPM. Also the disks were accessed by a hydraulic actuator. -
BEFLIX developed at Bell Labs (reference)
In 1963 a Researcher at Bell Labs, named Ken Knowlton Used a IBM 7094 computer to develop a computer language for computer animation called BEFLIX. This computer language allowed Knowlton himself and others to create a 252 by 184 pixel images and animations. These images and animation were captured by using a Stromberg-Carlson 4020 microfilm recorder. -
IBM’s announces system/360 (Reference)
The system/360 was originally aimed for business and scientific customer. Also one of the goals that system/360 aimed for was that all models would run on the same software without modifications. -
DENDRAL artificial intelligence program (reference)
In 1965 at team from Stanford created DENDRAL, which at the time was the “first expert system”. This system was programmed to “apply the accumulated expertise of specialists to problem solving.” -
Ralph Baer designs the brown box (reference)
In the year of 1966 a television engineer named Ralph Baer had started experimenting with a television set and games. Ralph’s first design was called the brown box which allowed users to play several different games on their television set. -
Apollo Guidance computer (AGC) make its debut (reference)
The Apollo Guidance computer was designed by scientists and engineers from MIT. This computer was the result of years of work to reduce the size of the computer from several refrigerators to a 70 pound computer. This computer’s first flight was on Apollo 7, but then a year later it steered Apollo 11 to the lunar surface. -
shakey the robot (reference)
In 1970 Shakey the robot became the first robot controlled by an artificial intelligence. Shakey was equipped with sensing devices and being controlled by an artificial intelligence the robot found its way around SRI . -
Computer space is released (reference)
After seeing the success of Steve Russell’s game space war. Inspired Nolan Bushell and Ted Dabney to create a game called computer space. Although computer space didn’t sell well, it was one of the earliest arcade games. -
La Faim (Hunger) debuts ( reference)
In 1969 Peter Foldes had began to work with Canada’s National Research Council to create a ten minute film called Hunger. The animator would do the most work and then his assistants would help by filling in the gaps.
