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diff --git a/misc_cmds/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer b/misc_cmds/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a4e9f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc_cmds/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +/* + * Computer + * + * $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer,v 1.11 2007/09/07 03:23:06 edwin Exp $ + */ + +#ifndef _calendar_computer_ +#define _calendar_computer_ + +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 +06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 +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 Alan Mathison Turing born, 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 +07/FriLast System Administrator Appreciation Day +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 + +#endif /* !_calendar_computer_ */ |