Annotation of src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer, Revision 1.12
1.3 fair 1: 01/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983
1.1 cgd 2: 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
1.9 sevan 3: 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
1.3 fair 4: 01/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 1977
1.1 cgd 5: 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
6: 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
7: 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
8: 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
9: 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
1.3 fair 10: 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/1982)
11: 01/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984
12: 01/24 Data General Nova introduced, 1969
1.6 jnemeth 13: 01/24 First Apple Macintosh released, 1984
1.1 cgd 14: 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
15: 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
16: 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
1.10 sevan 17: 02/07 Apple and NeXT announce merger, 1997
1.1 cgd 18: 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
19: 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
20: 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
1.11 sevan 21: 02/22 The C Programming Language book is published, 1978
1.1 cgd 22: 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
1.3 fair 23: 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976
1.5 mjl 24: 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968
1.1 cgd 25: 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
1.12 ! sevan 26: 03/15 Symbolics.com, the first .com domain registered, 1985
1.5 mjl 27: 03/21 NetBSD project born, 1993
1.1 cgd 28: 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
29: 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
1.9 sevan 30: 04/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976
1.1 cgd 31: 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
32: 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
33: 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
34: 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
35: 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
1.3 fair 36: 04/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977
37: 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974
1.9 sevan 38: 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
1.1 cgd 39: 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
40: 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
1.3 fair 41: 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
1.1 cgd 42: 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
43: 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
44: 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
45: 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
46: 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
47: 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
48: 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
49: 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
1.7 sevan 50: 06/16 Super Dimension Fortress (SDF) BBS received it's first caller on an
51: Apple ][e known as the SDF-1, 1987
1.5 mjl 52: 06/19 FreeBSD project born, 1993
1.1 cgd 53: 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
54: 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
1.4 mjl 55: Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC
1.1 cgd 56: 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
57: 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
58: 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
59: 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
1.8 sevan 60: 08/21 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs published, 1985
1.1 cgd 61: 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
62: 08/23 DEC founded, 1957
63: 09/15 ACM founded, 1947
64: 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
65: 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
66: 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
67: 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
68: 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
69: 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
70: 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
71: 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
1.3 fair 72: 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978
1.1 cgd 73: 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
74: 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
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