101/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 201/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983 301/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 401/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977 501/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 601/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 701/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 801/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 901/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 1001/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982) 1101/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984 1201/24 Data General Nova introduced, 1969 1301/24 First Apple Macintosh released, 1984 1401/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 1501/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 1601/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 1702/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 1802/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 1902/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2003/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 2103/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 2203/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 2303/14 LISP introduced, 1960 2403/21 NetBSD project born, 1993 2503/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 2603/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 2704/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 2804/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976 2904/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 3004/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 3104/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 3204/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 3304/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977 3404/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974 3505/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 3605/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 3705/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 3805/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 3905/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 4005/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 4105/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 4205/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 4306/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 4406/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 4506/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 4606/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 4706/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993 4806/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 4906/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 50 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 5107/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 5207/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 5308/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 5408/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 5508/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 5608/23 DEC founded, 1957 5709/15 ACM founded, 1947 5809/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 5910/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 6010/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 6110/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 6210/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 6310/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 6410/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 6510/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 6610/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978 6711/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 6812/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 69