• 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