> - 1962 - Tandy Corporation buys the chain Radio Shack electronic stores
> - Steve Wozniak builds an addition and subtraction machine that wins a prize in a local science fair

> - 1963 - Doug Engelbart invents the computer mouse

> - 1964 - Control Data Corporation releases the CDC6600 supercomputer, designed by Seymour Cray
> - Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the first BASIC programming language at Dartmouth College

> - 1965 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases the PDP-8 minicomputer
> - IBM introduces its System/360 line of computers

> - 1967 - IBM makes the first floppy disk

> - 1968 - Ed Roberts founds an electronics company called Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS)
> - Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel Corporation
> - Doug Engelbart delivers "The Mother of All Demos" at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco

> - 1969 - Intel is commissioned to produce integrated circuits for a line of Japanese calculators
> - Lee Felsenstein leaves Ampex to write for the Berkeley Barb
> - Data General releases the Nova computer
> - Intel decides to build the first microprocessor, the 4004; Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor execute the project
> - David Ahl goes to work for Digital Equipment Corporation
> - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson develop the Unix operating system