1*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) 2*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983 3*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 4*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977 5*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 6*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 7*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 8*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 9*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 10*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982) 11*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984 12*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/24 Data General Nova introduced, 1969 13*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/24 First Apple Macintosh released, 1984 14*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 15*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 16*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 17*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 18*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 19*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 20*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 21*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 22*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968 23*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 24*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993 25*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 26*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 27*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) 28*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976 29*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 30*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 31*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 32*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 33*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977 34*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974 35*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 36*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 37*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 38*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965 39*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 40*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 41*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 42*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 43*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 44*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 45*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 46*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) 47*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993 48*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 49*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, 50*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC 51*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 52*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 53*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 54*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 55*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 56*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort08/23 DEC founded, 1957 57*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort09/15 ACM founded, 1947 58*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 59*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 60*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 61*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 62*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 63*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 64*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 65*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 66*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978 67*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 68*37fc2fa1SThomas Cort12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 69