7 #ifndef _calendar_computer_
8 #define _calendar_computer_
10 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
11 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
12 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
13 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
14 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
15 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
16 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
17 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
18 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982)
19 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
20 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
21 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
22 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
23 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
24 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
25 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
26 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
27 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
28 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968
29 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
30 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
31 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
32 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
33 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
34 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
35 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
36 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
37 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976
38 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
39 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
40 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
41 05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997
42 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
43 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
44 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
45 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
46 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
47 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
48 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
49 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
50 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
51 06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
52 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
53 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
54 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
55 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC
56 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
57 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
58 07/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day
59 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
60 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
61 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
62 08/23 DEC founded, 1957
63 09/15 ACM founded, 1947
64 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
65 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
66 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
67 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
68 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
69 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
70 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956
71 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
72 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780
73 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
74 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
76 #endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */