1 1.3 fair 01/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983 2 1.1 cgd 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 3 1.9 sevan 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 4 1.3 fair 01/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977 5 1.1 cgd 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 6 1.1 cgd 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 7 1.1 cgd 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 8 1.1 cgd 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 9 1.1 cgd 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 10 1.3 fair 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982) 11 1.3 fair 01/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984 12 1.3 fair 01/24 Data General Nova introduced, 1969 13 1.6 jnemeth 01/24 First Apple Macintosh released, 1984 14 1.1 cgd 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 15 1.1 cgd 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 16 1.1 cgd 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 17 1.10 sevan 02/07 Apple and NeXT announce merger, 1997 18 1.1 cgd 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 19 1.1 cgd 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 20 1.1 cgd 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 21 1.11 sevan 02/22 The C Programming Language book is published, 1978 22 1.1 cgd 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 23 1.3 fair 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 24 1.5 mjl 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 25 1.1 cgd 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 26 1.12 sevan 03/15 Symbolics.com, the first .com domain registered, 1985 27 1.5 mjl 03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993 28 1.1 cgd 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 29 1.1 cgd 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 30 1.9 sevan 04/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976 31 1.1 cgd 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 32 1.1 cgd 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 33 1.1 cgd 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 34 1.1 cgd 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 35 1.1 cgd 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 36 1.3 fair 04/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977 37 1.18 nia 04/26 First ARM silicon produced, 1985 38 1.3 fair 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974 39 1.9 sevan 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 40 1.1 cgd 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 41 1.1 cgd 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 42 1.14 sevan 05/18 RISC-V project born, 2010 43 1.3 fair 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 44 1.1 cgd 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 45 1.1 cgd 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 46 1.1 cgd 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 47 1.1 cgd 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 48 1.1 cgd 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 49 1.1 cgd 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 50 1.1 cgd 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 51 1.1 cgd 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 52 1.17 snj 06/16 Super Dimension Fortress (SDF) BBS received its first caller on an 53 1.7 sevan Apple ][e known as the SDF-1, 1987 54 1.5 mjl 06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993 55 1.15 sevan 06/20 X Window System born, 1984 56 1.16 sevan 06/22 Quake released, 1996 57 1.1 cgd 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 58 1.1 cgd 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 59 1.4 mjl Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 60 1.1 cgd 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 61 1.1 cgd 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 62 1.18 nia 07/23 Commodore Amiga 1000 released, 1985 63 1.13 sevan 08/09 First email sent from space by the crew of STS-43, 1991 64 1.1 cgd 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 65 1.1 cgd 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 66 1.8 sevan 08/21 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs published, 1985 67 1.1 cgd 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 68 1.1 cgd 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 69 1.1 cgd 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 70 1.1 cgd 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 71 1.1 cgd 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 72 1.1 cgd 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 73 1.1 cgd 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 74 1.1 cgd 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 75 1.1 cgd 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 76 1.1 cgd 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 77 1.1 cgd 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 78 1.3 fair 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978 79 1.1 cgd 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 80 1.1 cgd 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 81
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