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Friday, 1 January 1960, 12:00:00 AM

USA<br />EUR '''ALGOL, first structured, procedural, programming language to be release

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Friday, 1 January 1960, 12:00:00 AM

UK Compiler compiler, first compiler compiler is released.

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Sunday, 1 January 1961, 12:00:00 AM

USA APL programming language released by Kenneth E. IversonKenneth Iverson at IBM.

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Monday, 1 January 1962, 12:00:00 AM

UK '''Atlas ComputerATLAS is completed by the University of Manchester team.''' This machine

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Monday, 1 January 1962, 12:00:00 AM

USA Work begun on the Linc, the brainchild of the M.I.T. physicist Wesley A. Clark in May 196

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Monday, 1 January 1962, 12:00:00 AM

USA '''Spacewar!, an early and highly influential computer game, is written by MIT studen

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Monday, 1 January 1962, 12:00:00 AM

The AN/UYK-1 computer was designed with rounded edges to fit through the hatch of ballistic missi

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Tuesday, 1 January 1963, 12:00:00 AM

USA '''Mouse (computing)Mouse conceived by Douglas Engelbart'''{{citation neededdate=Ju

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Wednesday, 1 January 1964, 12:00:00 AM

USA Computers built between 1964 and 1972 are often regarded as 'Third Generation' computers, the

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Wednesday, 1 January 1964, 12:00:00 AM

USA Programming language PL/I released by IBM.

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