The Second Generation (1959-1965)

  • 1960s: Gene Amdahl designed the IBM System/360 series of mainframe (G) computers, the first general-purpose digital computers to use intergrated circuits.
  • 1961: Dr. Hopper was instrumental in developing the COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) programming language.
  • 1963: Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, produced the PDP-I, the first minicomputer (G).
  • 1965: BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language developped by Dr. Thomas Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny.

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