ly of computers with upwards compatibility; when a company outgrew one model it could move up to the next model without worrying about converting its data. System 360 and the other lines built around integrated circuits made all previous computers obsolete, but the advantages were so grate that most users wrote the costs of conversion off as the price of progress. In the early 1960s, Dr thoms Kurtz and Dr. John Kemeny of Darmouth College began developing a programming language that a beginner could learn and use quickly. Their work culminated in 1964 with BASIC. Over the years, BASIC gained widespread popularity an devolved from a teaching language into a versatile and powerful language for both business and scientific applications, From micros to mainframes, BASIC is supported on more computers than any other language.Although most computer vendors would classify their computers as fourth generation, most people pinpoint 1971 as generations beginning. That was the year large-scale integration of circuitry. (more circuits per unit of space) was introduced. The base technology, though is still the integrated circuit. This is not to say that two decades have passed without significant innovations. In truth, the computer industry has experienced a min boggling succession of advances in further miniaturization of circuitry, data communications, and the design of computer hardware and software.In 1968, seventh grader Bill Gates and ninth grader Paul Allen were teaching the computer to play monopoly and commanding it to play millions of games to discover gaming strategies. Seven years later, in 1975 they were to set a course which would revolutionize the computer industry. While at Harvard, Gates and Allen developed a BASIC programming language for the first commercially available microcomputer, the MITS Altair. After Successful completion of the project, the two formed Microsoft Corporation, now the largest and most influential software comp...
