Dates In History
1970 [Detail]
| 8th January | Met Office installs IBM 360/195 |
| 22nd January | GEC-Elliott gets orders to control Motorways |
| 5th February | Metropoloitan Police get dual Burrough's B6500 |
| 12th February | 5200 computers installed in Britain |
| 1st June | Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) |
| 11th June | Computer terminals in homes predicted for 1980 |
| 9th July | Grace Hopper interview - Preparing for the jet computer |
| 25th August | DEC introduces the PDP-8/E |
| 10th September | CLASP computer system for buildings introduced |
| 17th September | Open University to install ICL 32K 1902A computer |
| October 1970 | Intel release the Intel 1103, a 1kb DRAM chip |
| 1st October | IBM 370/145 introduced |
| 12th November | Univac 1110 is introduced |
| 12th November | ICL announces system 4/72 |
| 19th November | UK Rutherford Laboratory chooses IBM 360/195 |
