1*39640Sbostic01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 2*39640Sbostic01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 3*39640Sbostic01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 4*39640Sbostic01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 5*39640Sbostic01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 6*39640Sbostic01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 7*39640Sbostic01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 8*39640Sbostic01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 9*39640Sbostic01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) 10*39640Sbostic01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 11*39640Sbostic01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 12*39640Sbostic01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 13*39640Sbostic01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 14*39640Sbostic02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 15*39640Sbostic02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 16*39640Sbostic02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 17*39640Sbostic03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 18*39640Sbostic03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos 19*39640Sbostic03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 20*39640Sbostic03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 21*39640Sbostic03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 22*39640Sbostic03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 23*39640Sbostic04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 24*39640Sbostic04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 25*39640Sbostic04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 26*39640Sbostic04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 27*39640Sbostic04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 28*39640Sbostic04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced 29*39640Sbostic05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 30*39640Sbostic05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 31*39640Sbostic05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 32*39640Sbostic05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 33*39640Sbostic05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 34*39640Sbostic05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 35*39640Sbostic05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 36*39640Sbostic05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 37*39640Sbostic06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 38*39640Sbostic06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 39*39640Sbostic06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 40*39640Sbostic06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 41*39640Sbostic06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 42*39640Sbostic06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 43*39640Sbostic06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 44*39640Sbostic Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC 45*39640Sbostic07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 46*39640Sbostic07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 47*39640Sbostic08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 48*39640Sbostic08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 49*39640Sbostic08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 50*39640Sbostic08/23 DEC founded, 1957 51*39640Sbostic09/15 ACM founded, 1947 52*39640Sbostic09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 53*39640Sbostic10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 54*39640Sbostic10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 55*39640Sbostic10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 56*39640Sbostic10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 57*39640Sbostic10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 58*39640Sbostic10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 59*39640Sbostic10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 60*39640Sbostic10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 61*39640Sbostic11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 62*39640Sbostic12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 63