- 1962 - Tandy Corporation buys the chain Radio Shack electronic stores
- Steve Wozniak builds an addition and subtraction machine that wins a prize in a local science fair
- 1963 - Doug Engelbart invents the computer mouse
- 1964 - Control Data Corporation releases the CDC6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray
- Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the first BASIC programming language at Dartmouth College
- 1965 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases the PDP-8 minicomputer
- IBM introduces its System/360 line of computers
- 1967 - IBM makes the first floppy disk
- 1968 - Ed Roberts founds an electronics company called Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS)
- Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel Corporation
- Doug Engelbart delivers "The Mother of All Demos" at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco
- 1969 - Intel is commissioned to produce integrated circuits for a line of Japanese calculators
- Lee Felsenstein leaves Ampex to write for the Berkeley Barb
- Data General releases the Nova computer
- Intel decides to build the first microprocessor, the 4004; Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor execute the project
- David Ahl goes to work for Digital Equipment Corporation
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson develop the Unix operating system