calendar.computer revision 116700
1214571Sdim/* 2214571Sdim * Computer 3214571Sdim * 4214571Sdim * $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer 116700 2003-06-23 00:16:00Z grog $ 5214571Sdim */ 6214571Sdim 7214571Sdim#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 8214571Sdim#define _calendar_computer_ 9214571Sdim 10214571Sdim01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 11214571Sdim01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 12214571Sdim01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 13214571Sdim01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 14214571Sdim01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 15214571Sdim01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 16214571Sdim01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 17214571Sdim01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 18214571Sdim01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982) 19214571Sdim01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 20214571Sdim01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 21214571Sdim01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 22214571Sdim01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 23214571Sdim02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 24214571Sdim02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 25214571Sdim02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 26214571Sdim03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 27214571Sdim03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 28214571Sdim03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 29214571Sdim03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 30214571Sdim03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 31214571Sdim03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 32214571Sdim04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 33214571Sdim04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 34214571Sdim04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 35214571Sdim04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 36214571Sdim04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 37214571Sdim04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 38214571Sdim05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 39214571Sdim05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 40214571Sdim05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 41214571Sdim05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997 42214571Sdim05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 43214571Sdim05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 44214571Sdim05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 45214571Sdim05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 46214571Sdim05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 47214571Sdim06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 48214571Sdim06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 49214571Sdim06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 50214571Sdim06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 51214571Sdim06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 52214571Sdim06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 53214571Sdim06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 54214571Sdim06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 55214571Sdim Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 56214571Sdim07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 57214571Sdim07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 58214571Sdim08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 59214571Sdim08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 60214571Sdim08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 61214571Sdim08/23 DEC founded, 1957 62214571Sdim09/15 ACM founded, 1947 63214571Sdim09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 64214571Sdim10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 65214571Sdim10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 66214571Sdim10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 67214571Sdim10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 68214571Sdim10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 69214571Sdim10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 70214571Sdim10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 71214571Sdim10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 72214571Sdim11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 73214571Sdim12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 74214571Sdim 75214571Sdim#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 76214571Sdim