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11.1Scgd01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 21.1Scgd01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 31.1Scgd01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 41.1Scgd01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 51.1Scgd01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 61.1Scgd01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 71.1Scgd01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 81.1Scgd01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 91.1Scgd01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 101.1Scgd01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 111.1Scgd01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 121.1Scgd01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 131.1Scgd01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 141.1Scgd02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 151.1Scgd02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 161.1Scgd02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 171.1Scgd03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 181.1Scgd03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 191.1Scgd03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 201.1Scgd03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 211.1Scgd03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 221.1Scgd03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 231.1Scgd04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 241.1Scgd04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 251.1Scgd04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 261.1Scgd04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 271.1Scgd04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 281.1Scgd04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 291.1Scgd05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 301.1Scgd05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 311.1Scgd05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 321.1Scgd05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 331.1Scgd05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 341.1Scgd05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 351.1Scgd05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 361.1Scgd05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 371.1Scgd06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 381.1Scgd06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 391.1Scgd06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 401.1Scgd06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 411.1Scgd06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 421.1Scgd06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 431.1Scgd06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 441.1Scgd Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 451.1Scgd07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 461.1Scgd07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 471.1Scgd08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 481.1Scgd08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 491.1Scgd08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 501.1Scgd08/23 DEC founded, 1957 511.1Scgd09/15 ACM founded, 1947 521.1Scgd09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 531.1Scgd10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 541.1Scgd10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 551.1Scgd10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 561.1Scgd10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 571.1Scgd10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 581.1Scgd10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 591.1Scgd10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 601.1Scgd10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 611.1Scgd11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 621.1Scgd12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 63