calendar.computer revision 1.1
1 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 2 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 3 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 4 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 5 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 6 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 7 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 8 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 9 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 10 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 11 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 12 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 13 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 14 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 15 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 16 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 17 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 18 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 19 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 20 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 21 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 22 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 23 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 24 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 25 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 26 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 27 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 28 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 29 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 30 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 31 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 32 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 33 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 34 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 35 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 36 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 37 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 38 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 39 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 40 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 41 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 42 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 43 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 44 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 45 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 46 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 47 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 48 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 49 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 50 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 51 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 52 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 53 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 54 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 55 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 56 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 57 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 58 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 59 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 60 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 61 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 62 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 63
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