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;# Events in the history of computing
;# Special days file for calentool (rel 2.1); modified from network posting by
;# RPC Rodgers, UCSF, Nov. 1988 and
;# special events of history, provided by
;# Clarke Thacher <thacher of unx.sas.com at bitnet>
00000101 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)%i19840101
00000101 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems) (Midnight GMT, 1970)%i19700101
00000101 The contract to develop EDVAC began. (1945)%i19450101
00000103 Apple Computer was incorporated. (1977)%i19770103
00000103 BSD UNIX 3.0 released (1980)%i19800103
00000105 First written reference to SIMULA. (1962)%i19620105
00000108 American Telephone & Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)%i19820108
00000108 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889)%i18890108
00000108 Joseph Weizenbaum, Pioneer AI researcher (1923)%i19230108
00000108 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit (1982)%i19820108
00000110 Donald Knuth, Author of the Art Of Computer Programming (????)
00000110 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy (1960)%i19600110
00000111 Committee convened to develop Algol 60. (1960)%i19600111
00000112 First CDC 1604 delivered. (1960)%i19600112
00000115 Apple announces the Macintosh. (1984)%i19840115
00000116 Set uid bit patent issued (1979)%i19790116
00000117 Justice Dept. begins IBM antitrust suit (1969)%i19690117
00000121 IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) was founded. (1960)%i19600121
00000124 Data General Nova computer introduced (1969)%i19690124
00000125 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee (1958)%i19580125
00000126 EDVAC demonstrated (1952)%i19520126
00000128 William Burroughs, Founder of Burroughs Computer Corp. (1855)%i18550128
00000131 Hewlett-Packard Company founded (1939)%i19390131
00000201 Remington Rand bought Eckert-Mauchly Corporation. (1950)%i19500201
00000202 An Wang, Founder of Wang Laboratories. (1920)%i19200202
00000204 Cybernet inaugurated (1969)%i19690204
00000211 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp. (1966)%i19660211
00000211 Richard Hamming, Inventor of the Hamming Code. (1915)%i19150211
00000214 Texas Instruments patents first micro-on-a-chip (1978)%i19780214
00000215 ENIAC demonstrated (1946)%i19460215
00000217 Thomas J. Watson Sr., Papa IBM (THINK) (1874)%i18740217
00000220 Kenneth Olsen, Founder and president of DEC. (1930)%i19300220
00000224 Steven Jobs, Cofounder of Apple. (1955)%i19550224
00000225 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $103.28 a share (1970)%i19700225
00000229 Herman Hollerith, Invented the keypunch. (1860)%i18600229
00000301 First NPL (later PL/I) report published (1964)%i19640301
00000301 Seymour Papert, AI researcher, and inventor of LOGO. (1928)%i19280301
00000304 The first CRAY-I was shipped to Los Alamos Labs. (1976)%i19760304
00000306 Adam Osborne, Father of the Osborne I. (1939)%i19390306
00000308 Howard Aiken, The creator of MARK I; hated T. J. Watson. (1900)%i19000308
00000309 Edsgar Dijkstra published "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". (1968)%i19680309
00000313 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer. (1970)%i19700313
00000314 LISP introduced (1960)%i19600314
00000316 Amdahl was incorporated. (1972)%i19720316
00000320 BSD UNIX 4.2 released (1983)%i19830320
00000327 LINC demonstrated. (1962)%i19620327
00000328 DEC announces PDP-11 (1970)%i19700328
00000330 UNIVAC I turned over to the Bureau of the Census. (1962)%i19620330
00000331 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila (1946)%i19460331
00000403 IBM 701 introduced (1953)%i19530403
00000404 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
00000406 Cray Research was founded. (1972)%i19720406
00000407 IBM announces System/360 (1964)%i19640407
00000409 ENIAC Project begun (1943)%i19430409
00000409 J. Presper Eckert, Co-inventer of ENIAC. (1919)%i19190409
00000415 Data General was founded. (1968)%i19680415
00000417 System 360 was introduced. (1966)%i19660417
00000428 Zilog Z-80 introduced
00000430 Edward Yourdon, Structured Zealot. (1944)%i19440430
00000430 George Stibitz, Computer pioneer at Bell Labs. (1904)%i19040430
00000501 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth (1964)%i19640501
00000506 EDSAC demonstrated (1949)%i19490506
00000510 BSD UNIX 2.0 released (1979)%i19790510
00000511 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory. (1951)%i19510511
00000516 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL) (1963)%i19630516
00000520 William Hewlett, Co-founder of Hewlett Packard. (1913)%i19130520
00000521 DEC announces PDP-8 (1968)%i19680521
00000527 First joint meeting of U.S. & European ALGOL definition committee (1958)%i19580527
00000528 First meeting of COBOL definition committee (eventually CODASYL) (1959)%i19590528
00000530 Colossus Mark II (1944)%i19440530
00000530 PDP 8 was announced. (1968)%i19680530
00000602 First issue of Computerworld (1967)%i19670602
00000605 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. (1833)%i18330605
00000607 BSD UNIX 4.3 released (1986)%i19860607
00000609 Prime Computer, Inc. was founded. (1972)%i19720609
00000610 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II. (1977)%i19770610
00000615 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau (1951)%i19510615
00000616 First programming error at Census Bureau (apocryphal) (1951)%i19510616
00000617 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $94.13 a share (1981)%i19810617
00000619 Blaise Pascal (1623)%i16230619
00000622 Alan Turing, British computing pioneer. (1912)%i19120622
00000622 Konrad Zuse, Computing pioneer, built the Z1 in Germany during WWII (1910)%i19100622
00000623 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory. (1912)%i19120623
00000623 IBM unbundles software (1969)%i19690623
00000626 Maurice Wilkes, First described the stored program concept. (1913)%i19130626
00000627 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $89.28 a share (1979)%i19790627
00000630 First advanced degree on computer related topic to H. Karamanian, for symbolic differentiation on ENIAC (Temple University, Philadelphia, 1948)%i19480630
00000701 Gottfried Leibniz, Invented a calcuator which could multiply & (1646)%i16460701
00000707 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Invented a loom controlled by punched cards. (1752)%i17520707
00000708 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)%i18770708
00000708 CDC was founded by former employees of Sperry-Rand. (1957)%i19570708
00000710 BSD UNIX 4.1 released (1981)%i19810710
00000713 Cleve Sinclair, British hardware hustler. (1940)%i19400713
00000714 Jay Forrester, Inventor of core memory, who later modelled the world. (1918)%i19180714
00000801 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $89.88 a share (1983)%i19830801
00000806 A team of computer scientists from Amdahl break the record for largest prime number with 391581 * 2^216193 - 1 after a year and a half of background computing (1989)%i19890806
00000806 BSD UNIX 4.2 released (1983)%i19830806
00000809 Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer. (1932)%i19320809
00000811 Stephen Wozniac, Cofounder of Apple. (1954)%i19540811
00000814 First Unix-based mallet created (1954)%i19540814
00000814 IBM PC announced (1981)%i19810814
00000822 CDC 6600 introduced (1963)%i19630822
00000823 DEC founded (1957)%i19570823
00000830 John Mauchly, Co-inventor of ENIAC (1907)%i19070830
00000903 Kathleen Jensen, Co-author of Pascal User Manual and Report. (1949)%i19490903
00000907 David Packard, Cofounded Hewlett Packard (1912)%i19120907
00000915 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) founded (1947)%i19470915
00000915 HP stock splits 3 for 1 at a price of $77 (1960)%i19600915
00000918 The 30th Mersenne Prime, 2^216091-1, is announced. It was discovered at Chevron Reaseach on their Cray X-MP. (1985)%i19850918
00000919 David Slowinski uses two Cray-1 supercomputers to discover the 29th Mersenne Prime, 2^132049-1 (1983)%i19830919
00000920 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program (1954)%i19540920
00000925 The chess program Hitech is the first computer program to beat an International Grand Master in tournament play winning 3 and drawing 1 (1988)%i19880925
00000928 Seymour Cray, Super computer builder. (1925)%i19250928
00001002 First robotics-based CAM (1939)%i19391002
00001004 John Atanasoff, Built one of the first electronic computers (1903)%i19031004
00001006 First GPSS manual published (1961)%i19611006
00001008 First VisiCalc prototype (1978)%i19781008
00001011 Doug McIlroy invents the pipe (or "hose," 1964)%i19641011
00001011 factoring of the first "hard" 100 digit number (11^104 + 1)/(11^8 + 1) achieved at 2AM PDT (1988)%i19881011
00001012 James Martin, Computer Guru. (1936)%i19361012
00001012 Steven Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, unveils the first computer by his new company NeXT (1988)%i19881012
00001012 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl (1962)%i19621012
00001014 British Computer Society founded (1957)%i19571014
00001015 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
00001017 Ritchie and Thompson's UNIX paper (1973)%i19731017
00001019 BSD UNIX 4.0 released (1980)%i19801019
00001020 Zurich ALGOL report published (1958)%i19581020
00001023 The Open Software Foundation announced the release of the industry's first open computer operating system -- OSF/1 (1990)%i19901023
00001025 DEC announces VAX-11/780
00001101 fiscal new year for Hewlett Packard Company 
00001102 George Boole (1815)%i18151102
00001102 Robert T. Morris, Jr. , releases his worm program onto the UNIX network at about 8pm from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. It uses Berkeley Unix mail flaws to spread itself across the country. (1988)%i19881102
00001104 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes (1952)%i19521104
00001116 Gene Amdahl, Designer of IBM 360, Amdahl 470, and founder of TRILOGY. (1922)%i19221116
00001126 Norbert Weiner, Author of Cybernetics (1894)%i18941126
00001203 John Backus, Father of FORTRAN (1924)%i19241203
00001208 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, University of Pennsylvania (1965)%i19651208
00001209 Grace Hopper, Mother of COBOL (1909)%i19091209
00001210 Ada Augusta Lovelace, First programmer. (1815)%i18151210
00001226 Charles Babbage, Victorian computer architect. (1791)%i17911226
00001226 DPMA founded (1951)%i19511226
00001227 APT report published (1956)%i19561227
00001228 John Von Neumann, First suggested stored program model. (1903)%i19031228
19851105 At 0:53:20 GMT UNIX time reached the 500000000 (half billion) second mark (1985)%i19851105
