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1996-2005: Global Impact
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1986-1995: Framing Policies
The first Software Policy, enter the MNCs, Sivasankaran launches Rs 29K PC, Nasscom is born, seeds of offshore outsourcing sown by Jack Welch, first supercomputer-CRAY installed, VSNL starts email and Internet services, IBM's re-entry | | | Disrupting Moments |
1976-1985: The Big Blue Impact
IBM exits India, Nadar makes history with HCL, Narayana Murthy launches Infosys, NIIT comes into existence, India's first IT publication–Dataquest–launched, first multi-lingual word processing system commissioned, Indira Gandhi invites Sam Pitroda to set up C-DOT, Wipro enters computers, South Eastern Railway in Calcutta gets computerized, Unix hits the country | | | Disrupting Moments |
1956-1965: The Beginning
India gets first digital computer, Vikram Sarabhai sets up the Operations Research Group, IIT-Kanpur starts computer science education, Electronics Committee set up under Dr Homi J Bhaba | | | Disrupting Moments |
1966-1975: Of Committees & Bodies
DoE set up with Prof MGK Menon at the helm, commercial computer installations exceed 100, Tata Group buys mainframe, computing starts in IIT-Bombay with Minsk II, Tandon makes magnetic recording heads for floppy drives | | |
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