projects / unix-history / blame
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1 | 01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984 |
| 2 | 01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970) | |
| 3 | 01/03 Apple Computer founded, 1977 | |
| 4 | 01/08 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982 | |
| 5 | 01/08 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889 | |
| 6 | 01/08 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982 | |
| 7 | 01/10 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960 | |
| 8 | 01/16 Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979 | |
| 9 | 01/17 Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82) | |
| 10 | 01/24 DG Nova introduced, 1969 | |
| 11 | 01/25 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958 | |
| 12 | 01/26 EDVAC demonstrated, 1952 | |
| 13 | 01/31 Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939 | |
| 14 | 02/11 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966 | |
| 15 | 02/14 First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978 | |
| 16 | 02/15 ENIAC demonstrated, 1946 | |
| 17 | 03/01 First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964 | |
| 18 | 03/04 First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos | |
| 19 | 03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968 | |
| 20 | 03/14 LISP introduced, 1960 | |
| 21 | 03/28 DEC announces PDP-11, 1970 | |
| 22 | 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 | |
| 23 | 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) | |
| 24 | 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 | |
| 25 | 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) | |
| 26 | 04/07 IBM announces System/360, 1964 | |
| 27 | 04/09 ENIAC Project begun, 1943 | |
| 28 | 04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced | |
| 29 | 05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949 | |
| 30 | 05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 | |
| 31 | 05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963 | |
| 32 | 05/21 DEC announces PDP-8 | |
| 33 | 05/22 Ethernet first described, 1973 | |
| 34 | 05/27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 | |
| 35 | 05/28 First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959 | |
| 36 | 05/30 Colossus Mark II, 1944 | |
| 37 | 06/02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 | |
| 38 | 06/10 First Apple II shipped, 1977 | |
| 39 | 06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951 | |
| 40 | 06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal) | |
| 41 | 06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969 | |
| 42 | 06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912 | |
| 43 | 06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian, | |
| 44 | Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC | |
| 45 | 07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877 | |
| 46 | 07/08 CDC incorporated, 1957 | |
| 47 | 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 | |
| 48 | 08/14 IBM PC announced, 1981 | |
| 49 | 08/22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963 | |
| 50 | 08/23 DEC founded, 1957 | |
| 51 | 09/15 ACM founded, 1947 | |
| 52 | 09/20 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954 | |
| 53 | 10/02 First robotics-based CAM, 1939 | |
| 54 | 10/06 First GPSS manual published, 1961 | |
| 55 | 10/08 First VisiCalc prototype, 1978 | |
| 56 | 10/12 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962 | |
| 57 | 10/14 British Computer Society founded, 1957 | |
| 58 | 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published | |
| 59 | 10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958 | |
| 60 | 10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780 | |
| 61 | 11/04 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952 | |
| 62 | 12/08 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965 |