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146283Sdfr/* 298944Sobrien * Computer 346283Sdfr * 498944Sobrien * $Id$ 546283Sdfr */ 698944Sobrien 798944Sobrien#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 898944Sobrien#define _calendar_computer_ 998944Sobrien 1046283Sdfr01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 1198944Sobrien01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 1298944Sobrien01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 1398944Sobrien01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 1498944Sobrien01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 1546283Sdfr01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 1698944Sobrien01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 1798944Sobrien01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 1898944Sobrien01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 1998944Sobrien01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 2046283Sdfr01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 2146283Sdfr01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 2246283Sdfr01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 2346283Sdfr02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 2446283Sdfr02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 2598944Sobrien02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2698944Sobrien03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 2798944Sobrien03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 2898944Sobrien03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 2998944Sobrien03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 3046283Sdfr03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 3146283Sdfr03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 3246283Sdfr04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 3346283Sdfr04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 3498944Sobrien04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 3598944Sobrien04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 3646283Sdfr04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 3798944Sobrien04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 3846283Sdfr05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 3946283Sdfr05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 4098944Sobrien05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 4198944Sobrien05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 4246283Sdfr05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 4398944Sobrien05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 4498944Sobrien05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 4546283Sdfr05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 4698944Sobrien06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 4798944Sobrien06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 4846283Sdfr06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 4998944Sobrien06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 5098944Sobrien06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 5146283Sdfr06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 5298944Sobrien06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 5398944Sobrien Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 5446283Sdfr07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 5598944Sobrien07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 5698944Sobrien08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 5746283Sdfr08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 5898944Sobrien08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 5998944Sobrien08/23 DEC founded, 1957 6098944Sobrien09/15 ACM founded, 1947 6146283Sdfr09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 6298944Sobrien10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 6398944Sobrien10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 6446283Sdfr10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 6598944Sobrien10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 6698944Sobrien10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 6746283Sdfr10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 6898944Sobrien10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 6998944Sobrien10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 7046283Sdfr11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 7198944Sobrien12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 7298944Sobrien 7398944Sobrien#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 7446283Sdfr