The 60s & 70s

• Appearance of general purpose computer

• IBM 360 series, unbundling, the“BUNCH”

• Time-sharing systems

• The first mini-computers (e.g. PDP8)

• Dominance of 3rd generation languages

• “Structured Programming”

• Databases, esp. Relational Databases

• Online “transaction” systems

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