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1.1 ! root 1: 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 ! 2: 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) ! 3: 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 ! 4: 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 ! 5: 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 ! 6: 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 ! 7: 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 ! 8: 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 ! 9: 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) ! 10: 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 ! 11: 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 ! 12: 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 ! 13: 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 ! 14: 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 ! 15: 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 ! 16: 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 ! 17: 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 ! 18: 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos ! 19: 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 ! 20: 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 ! 21: 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 ! 22: 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 ! 23: 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) ! 24: 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 ! 25: 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) ! 26: 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 ! 27: 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 ! 28: 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced ! 29: 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 ! 30: 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 ! 31: 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 ! 32: 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 ! 33: 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 ! 34: 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 ! 35: 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 ! 36: 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 ! 37: 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 ! 38: 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 ! 39: 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 ! 40: 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) ! 41: 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 ! 42: 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 ! 43: 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, ! 44: Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC ! 45: 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 ! 46: 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 ! 47: 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 ! 48: 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 ! 49: 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 ! 50: 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 ! 51: 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 ! 52: 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 ! 53: 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 ! 54: 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 ! 55: 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 ! 56: 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 ! 57: 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 ! 58: 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published ! 59: 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 ! 60: 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 ! 61: 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 ! 62: 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
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