Dates In History


1969 [Detail]
 1969 Nieman-Marcus advertises the Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer
 1st May AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, is founded
 16th October DEC PDP-15 Introduced
 16th October ICL 1906A trebles power at Chilton Atlas Lab
 23rd October National Giro is one year old
 29th October ARPANET launches the world's first packet-switched wide area computer network
 20th November IBM introduces Call 360 Time Sharing into Britain
 11th December General Electric announce the GE 655 £1.25 million
 18th December Plessey buys out Ferranti's Numerical Control Interests

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