1968

• Douglas C. Engelbart, of the Stanford Research Institute, demonstrates his system of keyboard, keypad, mouse, and windows at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco's Civic Center. He demonstrates use of a word processor, a hypertext system, and remote collaborative work with colleagues.

• Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore leave Fairchild Semiconductors.

• Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel Corporation.

• Ed Roberts and Forest Mims found Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS).

• IBM scientist John Cocke and others complete a prototype scientific computer called the ACS. It incorporates some RISC concepts, but the project is later canceled due to the instruction set not being compatible with that of IBM's System/360 computers.

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