Programmeerimiskeel
corporation. Purpose, to research educational resources and technological improvements for
education.
1967
The first Consumer Electronics Show is held in New York City. International Research applies
for a patent for a method of constructing double sided magnetic tape utilizing a MU-Metal Foil
Inter layer. Legal problems with a professor at the University of North Carolina, cause Wayne
Pickette to drop the quest for that patent. Wayne Pickette makes acquaintence with the famous
entrepreneur Arthur Rock of San Francisco.
IBM builds the first floppy disk. Seymour Papert designed LOGO as a computer language for
children.
1968
Edsger Dijkstra's "GO TO considered harmful" letter, published in Communications of the
ACM, fired the first salvo in the structured programming wars.
International Research Corp., in San Martin, California, develops the architecture for a computer-
on-a-chip modeled on an enhanced PDP-8/S concept.