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Content :/* * Computer * * $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer 285028 2015-07-02 12:08:05Z brueffer $ */ #ifndef _calendar_computer_ #define _calendar_computer_ 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982) 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 07/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 #endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */

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