History - Third generation (1964-70)

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Information technology evolution

Hardware

Integrated Circuits or solid state devices.

1964 IBM introduced six upgradable computers in the 360 Series, allowing for computer growth with company growth.

Magnetic tape selectric typewriter developed, the forerunner of today's Word Processor

CRTs being used for computer input

Software

IBM developed RPG (Report Program Generator)

N Wirth developed Pascal as a teaching language, which used structured programming concepts

Data

Integration of data occurred

People

Clerical employees now input data, rather than computer specialists.

Computer Science degrees introduced.


Timeline

1964

IBM introduces;
* The system 360 series of computer systems
* The magnetic tape Selectric typewriter
* The RPG programming language

1965

DEC introduces the PDP-8 mini-computer

1968

Computer Sciences Corporation becomes the first software company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange

1969

IBM "unbundles" its software from its hardware

1970

Nicholas Wirth develops the Pascal programming language

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