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1958 - 1962
	1958	Kenneth Olsen, Stan Olsen, and Harlan Anderson form the Digital Equipment Corp.
Courtesy of Texas Instruments	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
Courtesy of Stanford University	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
Courtesy of Xerox. Reprinted with Permission	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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