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# This calendar is a slightly modified version of the calendars
# distributed in OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
#
# Original versions of these calendars can be found at:
#
# http://bsdcalendar.sf.net/
# http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/
#
CC Computers
00000101 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
00000101 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
00000103 Apple Computer founded, 1977
00000108 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
00000108 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
00000108 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
00000110 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
00000116 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
00000117 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82)
00000124 DG Nova introduced, 1969
00000125 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
00000126 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
00000131 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
00000211 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
00000214 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
00000215 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
00000301 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
00000304 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
00000309 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.W. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968
00000314 LISP introduced, 1960
00000328 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
00000331 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
00000401 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
00000403 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
00000404 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
00000407 IBM announces System/360, 1964
00000409 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
00000428 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976
00000506 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
00000501 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
00000516 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
00000521 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
00000522 Ethernet first described, 1973
00000527 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
00000528 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
00000530 Colossus Mark II, 1944
00000602 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
00000607 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
00000610 First Apple II shipped, 1977
00000615 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
00000616 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
00000623 IBM unbundles software, 1969
00000623 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
00000630 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC
00000708 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
00000708 CDC incorporated, 1957
00000814 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
00000814 IBM PC announced, 1981
00000822 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
00000823 DEC founded, 1957
00000915 ACM founded, 1947
00000920 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
00001002 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
00001006 First GPSS manual published, 1961
00001008 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
00001012 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
00001014 British Computer Society founded, 1957
00001015 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956
00001020 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
00001025 DEC announces VAX-11780, 1978
00001104 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
00001208 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
*07L6 Sysadminday
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