calendar.computer revision 13685
1/* 2 * Computer 3 * 4 * $Id: calendar.computer,v 1.2 1996/01/28 19:12:24 wosch Exp $ 5 */ 6 7#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 8#define _calendar_computer_ 9 1001/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 1101/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 1201/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 1301/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 1401/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 1501/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 1601/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 1701/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 1801/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 1901/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 2001/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 2101/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 2201/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 2302/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 2402/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 2502/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2603/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 2703/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 2803/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 2903/14 LISP introduced, 1960 3003/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 3103/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 3204/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 3304/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 3404/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 3504/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 3604/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 3704/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 3805/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 3905/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 4005/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 4105/21 DEC announces PDP-8 4205/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 4305/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 4405/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 4505/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 4606/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 4706/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 4806/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 4906/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 5006/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 5106/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 5206/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 53 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 5407/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 5507/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 5608/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 5708/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 5808/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 5908/23 DEC founded, 1957 6009/15 ACM founded, 1947 6109/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 6210/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 6310/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 6410/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 6510/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 6610/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 6710/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 6810/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 6910/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 7011/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 7112/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 72 73#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 74