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1.3Sfair01/01	The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
1.3Sfair01/01	ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983
1.1Scgd01/01	AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
1.3Sfair01/03	Apple Computer incorporated, 1977
1.1Scgd01/08	American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
1.1Scgd01/08	Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
1.1Scgd01/08	Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
1.1Scgd01/10	First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
1.1Scgd01/16	Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
1.3Sfair01/17	Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982)
1.3Sfair01/22	Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984
1.3Sfair01/24	Data General Nova introduced, 1969
1.1Scgd01/25	First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
1.1Scgd01/26	EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
1.1Scgd01/31	Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
1.1Scgd02/11	Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
1.1Scgd02/14	First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
1.1Scgd02/15	ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
1.1Scgd03/01	First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
1.3Sfair03/04	First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976
1.1Scgd03/09	"GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968
1.1Scgd03/14	LISP introduced, 1960
1.1Scgd03/28	DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
1.1Scgd03/31	Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
1.1Scgd04/01	Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974  (It figures.)
1.3Sfair04/01	Apple Computer founded, 1976
1.1Scgd04/03	IBM 701 introduced, 1953
1.1Scgd04/04	Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
1.1Scgd04/07	IBM announces System/360, 1964
1.1Scgd04/09	ENIAC Project begun, 1943
1.3Sfair04/20	Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977
1.3Sfair04/28	Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974
1.1Scgd05/06	EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
1.1Scgd05/01	First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
1.1Scgd05/16	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
1.3Sfair05/21	DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
1.1Scgd05/22	Ethernet first described, 1973
1.1Scgd05/27	First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
1.1Scgd05/28	First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
1.1Scgd05/30	Colossus Mark II, 1944
1.1Scgd06/02	First issue of Computerworld, 1967
1.1Scgd06/10	First Apple II shipped, 1977
1.1Scgd06/15	UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
1.1Scgd06/16	First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
1.1Scgd06/23	IBM unbundles software, 1969
1.1Scgd06/30	First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
1.4Smjl	Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC
1.1Scgd07/08	Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
1.1Scgd07/08	CDC incorporated, 1957
1.1Scgd08/14	First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
1.1Scgd08/14	IBM PC announced, 1981
1.1Scgd08/22	CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
1.1Scgd08/23	DEC founded, 1957
1.1Scgd09/15	ACM founded, 1947
1.1Scgd09/20	Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
1.1Scgd10/02	First robotics-based CAM, 1939
1.1Scgd10/06	First GPSS manual published, 1961
1.1Scgd10/08	First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
1.1Scgd10/12	Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
1.1Scgd10/14	British Computer Society founded, 1957
1.1Scgd10/15	First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
1.1Scgd10/20	Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
1.3Sfair10/25	DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978
1.1Scgd11/04	UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
1.1Scgd12/08	First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965