/* * Computer * * $FreeBSD$ */ #ifndef _calendar_computer_ #define _calendar_computer_ LANG=UTF-8 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982) 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 07/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 /* added in the debian package, from the Jargon File */ Jan 01 Macintosh Epoch, Midnight 1904 Jan 18 Unix clock runs out, 2038 Feb 08 Black Thursday, The CDA is signed into law, 1996 Mar 31 Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation (ARMM) released, 1993 Apr 01 Usenet site kremvax announced as an April Fool's joke, 1984 Jun 26 White Thursday, CDA demolished by U.S. Supreme Court, 1997 Jul 04 First @-party, at the Westercon (California SF convention), 1980 Sep 09 First bug found, a moth in Harvard Mark II, 1947 Oct 16 Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions Inc. shut down by lawsuit, 1997 Nov 17 VMS Epoch (base date of U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides), 1858 Oct 20 MIT hacked the Harvard-Yale football game, 1982 Jan 24 Introduction of the first Mac, 1984 Mar 24 Introduction of Mac OS X, 2001 #endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */