1960s Computer Technology

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  • AT&T Releases the First Dataphone

    AT&T Releases the First Dataphone
    A dataphone was the early version of what we now know as modems and was an early internet invention.
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    1960s Computer Technology Development

  • Lou Ottens Develops the Tape Cassette

    Lou Ottens Develops the Tape Cassette
    Lou Ottens working for Philips developed and released the first tape cassette players. Tape cassettes were a big step along the digital media development path.

  • The TRANSIT System is Operational of U.S. Polaris ubmarinesS

    The TRANSIT System is Operational of U.S. Polaris ubmarinesS
    The TRANSIT system was developed by DARPA and John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory under Dr. Richard Kershner. This system later become known as GPS.

  • Robert H. Dennard invents DRAM

    Robert H. Dennard invents DRAM
    IBM researcher Robert H. Dennard invents DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) which significantly increased computer memory storage. It was quickly adopted in the industry and is still used to this day.

  • The Creation of the First Floppy Disk

    The Creation of the First Floppy Disk
    IBM created the first floppy disk in 1967 with a small team of engineers led by David L. Noble. The first floppy disk had about 8o kilobytes of storage. When IBM introduced the floppy disk, it basically made company data punch cards obsolete.