+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, 01/08/82)
+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. Dikstra) 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
+05/06 EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
+05/01 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
+05/16 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
+05/21 DEC announces PDP-8
+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 programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
+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 diffentiation 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
+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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