1/* 2 * Computer 3 * 4 * $OpenBSD: calendar.computer,v 1.17 2015/09/03 23:04:18 sobrado Exp $ 5 */ 6 7#ifndef _calendar_computer_ 8#define _calendar_computer_ 9 1001/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 1101/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983 1201/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 1301/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977 1401/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 1501/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 1601/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 1701/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 1801/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 1901/16 The 1st IETF meeting at Linkabit, San Diego, CA; 21 Attendees; 1986 2001/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 2101/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984 2201/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 2301/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 2401/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 2501/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 2602/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 2702/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 2802/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 2903/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 3003/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 3103/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.W. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 3203/14 LISP introduced, 1960 3303/21 NetBSD project born, 1993 3403/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 3503/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 3604/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 3704/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976 3804/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 3904/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 4004/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 4104/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 4204/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977 4304/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976 4405/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 4505/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 4605/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 4705/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 4805/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 4905/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 5005/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 5105/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 5206/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 5306/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 5406/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 5506/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 5606/19 X Window System announced, 1984 5706/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993 5806/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 5906/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 60 Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 6107/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 6207/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 6307/22 Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term of BSD license, 1999 6408/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 6508/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 6608/17 MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers, 2004 6708/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 6808/23 DEC founded, 1957 6909/09 Unix billennium begins at 01:46:40 UTC, 2001 7009/15 ACM founded, 1947 7109/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 7210/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 7310/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 7410/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 7510/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 7610/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 7710/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956 7810/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 7910/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1977 8011/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 8112/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 82 83#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ 84