1/* 2 * Computer 3 * 4 * $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer,v 1.11 2007/09/07 03:23:06 edwin Exp $ 5 * $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer,v 1.4 2007/09/24 21:38:17 pavalos Exp $ 6 */ 7 8#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 9#define _calendar_computer_ 10 1101/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 1201/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 1301/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 1401/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 1501/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 1601/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 1701/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 1801/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 1901/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982) 2001/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 2101/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 2201/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 2301/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 2402/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 2502/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 2602/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2703/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 2803/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 2903/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 3003/14 LISP introduced, 1960 3103/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 3203/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 3304/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 3404/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 3504/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 3604/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 3704/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 3804/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 3905/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 4005/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 4105/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 4205/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997 4305/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 4405/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 4505/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 4605/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 4705/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 4806/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 4906/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 5006/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 5106/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 5206/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 5306/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 5406/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 5506/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 56 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 5707/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 5807/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 5907/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day 6008/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 6108/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 6208/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 6308/23 DEC founded, 1957 6409/15 ACM founded, 1947 6509/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 6610/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 6710/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 6810/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 6910/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 7010/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 7110/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 7210/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 7310/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 7411/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 7512/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 76 77#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 78