113685Swosch/* 213685Swosch * Computer 313685Swosch * 450477Speter * $FreeBSD$ 513685Swosch */ 613685Swosch 713685Swosch#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 813685Swosch#define _calendar_computer_ 913685Swosch 101590Srgrimes01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 111590Srgrimes01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 121590Srgrimes01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 131590Srgrimes01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 141590Srgrimes01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 151590Srgrimes01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 161590Srgrimes01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 171590Srgrimes01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 18114140Sgrog01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982) 191590Srgrimes01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 201590Srgrimes01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 211590Srgrimes01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 221590Srgrimes01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 231590Srgrimes02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 241590Srgrimes02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 251590Srgrimes02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 261590Srgrimes03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 271590Srgrimes03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 2852038Scharnier03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 291590Srgrimes03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 301590Srgrimes03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 311590Srgrimes03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 32172071Sedwin04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 331590Srgrimes04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 341590Srgrimes04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 351590Srgrimes04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 361590Srgrimes04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 37114140Sgrog04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 381590Srgrimes05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 391590Srgrimes05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 401590Srgrimes05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 4132307Scharnier05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997 42114140Sgrog05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 431590Srgrimes05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 441590Srgrimes05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 451590Srgrimes05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 461590Srgrimes05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 471590Srgrimes06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 48116700Sgrog06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 491590Srgrimes06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 501590Srgrimes06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 51114140Sgrog06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 521590Srgrimes06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 53116700Sgrog06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 541590Srgrimes06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 5578996Sdd Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 561590Srgrimes07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 571590Srgrimes07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 58172071Sedwin07/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day 591590Srgrimes08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 601590Srgrimes08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 611590Srgrimes08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 621590Srgrimes08/23 DEC founded, 1957 631590Srgrimes09/15 ACM founded, 1947 641590Srgrimes09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 651590Srgrimes10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 661590Srgrimes10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 671590Srgrimes10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 681590Srgrimes10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 691590Srgrimes10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 70114140Sgrog10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 711590Srgrimes10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 721590Srgrimes10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 731590Srgrimes11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 741590Srgrimes12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 7513685Swosch 7613685Swosch#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 77