Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Aalto first presented his scheme in 1961, but it went through various modifications during the early 1960s.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

* Unmanned air vehicles are the latest form of air observation, having been first introduced in the early 1960s.

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

Because of this, the United States Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie program was cancelled in the early 1960s ; the later B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft entered service only after protracted political and development problems.

The generals of the early 1990s had been junior officers in the early 1960s and had witnessed the military coup in 1964.

The United States, particularly through its counterinsurgency doctrines of the early 1960s, was more influential with the older group of officers.

The 8-bit bus ran at 4. 77 MHz ( the clock speed of the IBM PC and IBM PC / XT's 8088 CPU ), while the 16-bit bus operated at 6 or 8 MHz ( because the 80286 CPUs in IBM PC / AT computers ran at 6 MHz in early models and 8 MHz in later models.

It was employed for the IBM PC / AT, introduced in 1984, and then widely used in most PC / AT compatible computers until the early 1990s.

Since then it has been open source software, originally under a license particular to AT & T but, since the 93q release in early 2005, it has been licensed under the Common Public License.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

It is in some sense, a strange inversion that BSD Unix, where Joy's vi codebase began, no longer uses it, and the AT & T-derived Unixes, which in the early days lacked Joy's editor, are the ones that now use and maintain modified versions of his code.

The AT and 80286-based systems were generally socketed for the 80287, and 80386 / 80386SX based machines for the 80387 and 80387SX respectively, although early ones were socketed for the 80287, since the 80387 did not exist yet.

However, due to the 68010's small speed boost over the 68000 and its support for virtual memory it can be found in a number of smaller Unix systems, both with the 68451 MMU ( in the Torch Triple X ), and with a custom MMU ( such as the Sun-2 Workstation, AT & T UNIX PC, the NCR Tower XP and early HP9000s like the Model 300 and 310 ) and various research machines.

Utilizing the early work at Bell Labs, AT & T eventually established their Frequency Control Products division, later spun off and known today as Vectron International.

Many early IBM PC compatibles used the same computer bus as the original PC and AT models.

The diff utility was developed in the early 1970s on the Unix operating system which was emerging from AT & T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

In early 1971, a former Air Force electronics technician named John Draper ( later self-nicknamed Captain Crunch, Crunch, Crunchman, or Mr. Crunchtastic ) was informed by his phone phreak friend Joe Engressia that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of the cereal could be easily modified to emit a tone at precisely 2600 Hertz, the same frequency that was used by AT & T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready to route a new call.

As early as 1978, AT & T and CBS had been experimenting with the idea of a videotex service, and were drawn towards the Telidon efforts.

Perhaps the most famous antitrust enforcement actions brought by the federal government were the break-up of AT & T's local telephone service monopoly in the early 1980s and its actions against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

One of the early videotex providers, Trintex, a joint venture of AT & T-CBS completed a moderately successful trial of videotex use in the homes of Ridgewood, New Jersey.

* February 18 – The first Washington, D. C. – New York City telecast through AT & T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it " as blurred as an early Chaplin movie.

One of MCI's early advertising success stories was to hire the same actors used in a previous AT & T commercial.

After the early Quadra machines, Apple started a short-lived experiment including AT & T 3210 digital signal processors ( DSP ) in the " AV " series machines ( the 840AV and 660AV ).

The WD1771 and its kin were WDC's first entry into the data storage industry ; by the early 1980s, they were making hard disk drive controllers, and in 1983, they won the contract to provide IBM with controllers for the PC / AT.

In the early years of its existence, MWC received a visit from an AT & T delegation looking to determine whether MWC was infringing on AT & T Unix property.

AT & T / Lucent created its version of voice-mail in the early 1990s ( called Audix ) but it would only work on AT & T / Lucent PBXs.

It is an intermediate form of videotelephony, first deployed commercially in the United States by AT & T during the early 1970s as part of their development of Picturephone technology.