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The First Fifty Years of Business Computing Timeline - ' 1960s '
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1960s

In Technology: Management Information Systems
In Business: Corporate Dominance

MSOPS $2.60
DOW 622.60

1960	Benjamin Curley of Digital Equipment Corp. develops the first minicomputer, PDP-1 The first SABRE reservation system is installed
1961	MIT demonstrates time sharing
1963	CAD is introduced by General Motors and MIT Lincoln Laboratories
1964	IBM announces its System 360 mainframe Douglas Engelbart and his team invent a graphical user interface using a mouse and windows
1965	Gordon Moore's pronouncement is termed "Moore's Law"
1966	Texas Instruments introduces the first solid-state hand-held calculator
1968	Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel
1969	Work begins on the ARPANet Dennis Ritchie et al at Bell Labs create Unix

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