timeline up to the 1980's

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First commercially available general-purpose electronic computer in the United Kingdom Ferranti Mark 1 - February 1951
First Fortran program successfully runs. Invented at IBM by a group led by John Backus- September 1954
Year the richest man according to Forbes born. October 1955 - Bill gates
British Computer Society founded. Founded October - 1957
Xerox 914 - First Office Copier for sale 1959 - "Clue printer company"
Rand Tablet 1964 - Original cost $18,000, senses electrical pulses relayed through a fine grid of conductors housed beneath the drawing surface
Moore's Law coined 1965 - Doubling of transistor density every year.
First cash depenser 1967 - Customers were issued with paper vouchers which were inserted into the machine which retained the voucher, and dispensed a single £10 note.
Patent filed for DRAM 1968 - Filed for by IBM and Invented by Robert Dennard
Arpanet 1969 - First successful packet-switched wide area computer network
Unix 1970 - Various Linux distributions are still based on it
First e-mail program 1972 - SNDMSG
Ethernet 1973 - clue IEEE 802.3
Microsoft 1975 - Company which sold the Basic programming language
Sinclair ZX80 1980 - Home computer for sale @ £99.95
BBC Micro 1981 - Used in UK school's to teach computer literacy.
Apple Lisa 1983 - Potentially named after the co-founders daughter of the fruit company.
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