01/01 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
01/01 ARPANET converts from NCP to TCP/IP - the Internet is born, 1983
01/01 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
01/03 Apple Computer incorporated, 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, 01/08/1982)
01/22 Apple airs "1984" commercial during Superbowl XVIII, 1984
01/24 Data General 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, 1976
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.)
04/01 Apple Computer founded, 1976
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
04/20 Apple announces the Apple ][ at the 1st West Coast Computer Faire, 1977
04/28 Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1974
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, 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 programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
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
10/20 Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
10/25 DEC announces VAX-11/780, 1978
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
