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1958 - 1962
 
1958
Kenneth Olsen, Stan Olsen, and Harlan Anderson form the Digital Equipment Corp.

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1958
Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments invents the integrated circuit
 
1958
Bell Labs' modem data phone makes possible the transmission of binary data through phone lines
1959
The language Cobol, Common Business Oriented Language, is developed

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1959
John McCarthy at M.I.T. develops the language Lisp on the IBM 704 for artificial intelligence applications
 
1959
Japan introduces its first commercial transistor computer

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1959
Xerox debuts the first commercial copy machine
 
1959
General Electric develops the GE ERMA, the first machine that can process checks encoded with magnetic ink
1960
Digital Electronics Company debuts the PDP-1 which has a monitor and keyboard input
1961
The first robot patent is obtained by Georg Devol whose "Unimates" are the first modern industrial robots

IBM Corporate Archives
1961
Computer capabilities launch forward with the IBM 7030, which runs 30 times faster than the 704
 
1962
The first computer science departments are established at Stanford University and Purdue University

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