101/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 201/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 301/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 401/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 501/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 601/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 701/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 801/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 901/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 1001/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 1101/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 1201/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 1301/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 1402/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 1502/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 1602/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 1703/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 1803/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 1903/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 2003/14 LISP introduced, 1960 2103/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 2203/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 2304/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 2404/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 2504/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 2604/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 2704/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 2804/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 2905/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 3005/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 3105/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 3205/21 DEC announces PDP-8 3305/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 3405/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 3505/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 3605/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 3706/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 3806/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 3906/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 4006/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 4106/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 4206/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 4306/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 44 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 4507/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 4607/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 4708/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 4808/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 4908/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 5008/23 DEC founded, 1957 5109/15 ACM founded, 1947 5209/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 5310/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 5410/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 5510/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 5610/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 5710/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 5810/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 5910/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 6010/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 6111/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 6212/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 63