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- /*
- * Computer
- *
- * $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer,v 1.9 2003/04/28 00:32:10 grog Exp $
- */
-
- #ifndef _calendar_computer_
- #define _calendar_computer_
-
- LANG=utf-8
-
- 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
- 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
- 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977
- 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
- 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
- 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
- 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
- 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
- 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, January 8, 1982)
- 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969
- 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
- 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
- 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
- 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
- 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
- 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
- 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
- 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
- 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dijkstra) published in CACM, 1968
- 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960
- 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
- 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
- 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.)
- 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953
- 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
- 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
- 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943
- 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976
- 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
- 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
- 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
- 05/19 UNIX is 10000 days old, 1997
- 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8, 1965
- 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973
- 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
- 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
- 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944
- 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
- 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977
- 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
- 06/16 First publicized programming error at Census Bureau, 1951
- 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
- 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912
- 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
- Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC
- 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
- 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957
- 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
- 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981
- 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
- 08/23 DEC founded, 1957
- 09/15 ACM founded, 1947
- 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
- 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939
- 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961
- 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
- 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
- 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957
- 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published, 1956
- 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
- 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780
- 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
- 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
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- /* added in the debian package, from the Jargon File */
- Jan 01 Macintosh Epoch, Midnight 1904
- Jan 18 Unix clock runs out, 2038
- Feb 08 Black Thursday, The CDA is signed into law, 1996
- Mar 31 Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation (ARMM) released, 1993
- Apr 01 Usenet site kremvax announced as an April Fool's joke, 1984
- Jun 26 White Thursday, CDA demolished by U.S. Supreme Court, 1997
- Jul 04 First @-party, at the Westercon (California SF convention), 1980
- Sep 09 First bug found, a moth in Harvard Mark II, 1947
- Oct 16 Sanford Wallace's Cyber Promotions Inc. shut down by lawsuit, 1997
- Nov 17 VMS Epoch (base date of U.S. Naval Observatory's ephemerides), 1858
- Oct 20 MIT hacked the Harvard-Yale football game, 1982
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- #endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */
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