; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,12 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: computing,v 2.3 91/03/07 16:21:05 billr Exp $ ;# 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 00000101 AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)%s19840101 00000101 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems) (Midnight GMT, 1970)%s19700101 00000101 The contract to develop EDVAC began. (1945)%s19450101 00000103 Apple Computer was incorporated. (1977)%s19770103 00000103 BSD UNIX 3.0 released (1980)%s19800103 00000105 First written reference to SIMULA. (1962)%s19620105 00000108 American Telephone & Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)%s19820108 00000108 Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer (1889)%s18890108 00000108 Joseph Weizenbaum, Pioneer AI researcher (1923)%s19230108 00000108 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit (1982)%s19820108 00000110 Donald Knuth, Author of the Art Of Computer Programming (????) 00000110 First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy (1960)%s19600110 00000111 Committee convened to develop Algol 60. (1960)%s19600111 00000112 First CDC 1604 delivered. (1960)%s19600112 00000115 Apple announces the Macintosh. (1984)%s19840115 00000116 Set uid bit patent issued (1979)%s19790116 00000117 Justice Dept. begins IBM antitrust suit (1969)%s19690117 00000121 IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) was founded. (1960)%s19600121 00000124 Data General Nova computer introduced (1969)%s19690124 00000125 First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee (1958)%s19580125 00000126 EDVAC demonstrated (1952)%s19520126 00000128 William Burroughs, Founder of Burroughs Computer Corp. (1855)%s18550128 00000131 Hewlett-Packard Company founded (1939)%s19390131 00000201 Remington Rand bought Eckert-Mauchly Corporation. (1950)%s19500201 00000202 An Wang, Founder of Wang Laboratories. (1920)%s19200202 00000204 Cybernet inaugurated (1969)%s19690204 00000211 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp. (1966)%s19660211 00000211 Richard Hamming, Inventor of the Hamming Code. (1915)%s19150211 00000214 Texas Instruments patents first micro-on-a-chip (1978)%s19780214 00000215 ENIAC demonstrated (1946)%s19460215 00000217 Thomas J. Watson Sr., Papa IBM (THINK) (1874)%s18740217 00000220 Kenneth Olsen, Founder and president of DEC. (1930)%s19300220 00000224 Steven Jobs, Cofounder of Apple. (1955)%s19550224 00000225 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $103.28 a share (1970)%s19700225 00000229 Herman Hollerith, Invented the keypunch. (1860)%s18600229 00000301 First NPL (later PL/I) report published (1964)%s19640301 00000301 Seymour Papert, AI researcher, and inventor of LOGO. (1928)%s19280301 00000304 The first CRAY-I was shipped to Los Alamos Labs. (1976)%s19760304 00000306 Adam Osborne, Father of the Osborne I. (1939)%s19390306 00000308 Howard Aiken, The creator of MARK I; hated T. J. Watson. (1900)%s19000308 00000309 Edsgar Dijkstra published "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". (1968)%s19680309 00000313 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer. (1970)%s19700313 00000314 LISP introduced (1960)%s19600314 00000316 Amdahl was incorporated. (1972)%s19720316 00000320 BSD UNIX 4.2 released (1983)%s19830320 00000327 LINC demonstrated. (1962)%s19620327 00000328 DEC announces PDP-11 (1970)%s19700328 00000330 UNIVAC I turned over to the Bureau of the Census. (1962)%s19620330 00000331 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila (1946)%s19460331 00000403 IBM 701 introduced (1953)%s19530403 00000404 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) 00000406 Cray Research was founded. (1972)%s19720406 00000407 IBM announces System/360 (1964)%s19640407 00000409 ENIAC Project begun (1943)%s19430409 00000409 J. Presper Eckert, Co-inventer of ENIAC. (1919)%s19190409 00000415 Data General was founded. (1968)%s19680415 00000417 System 360 was introduced. (1966)%s19660417 00000428 Zilog Z-80 introduced 00000430 Edward Yourdon, Structured Zealot. (1944)%s19440430 00000430 George Stibitz, Computer pioneer at Bell Labs. (1904)%s19040430 00000501 First BASIC program run at Dartmouth (1964)%s19640501 00000506 EDSAC demonstrated (1949)%s19490506 00000510 BSD UNIX 2.0 released (1979)%s19790510 00000511 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory. (1951)%s19510511 00000516 First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL) (1963)%s19630516 00000520 William Hewlett, Co-founder of Hewlett Packard. (1913)%s19130520 00000521 DEC announces PDP-8 (1968)%s19680521 00000527 First joint meeting of U.S. & European ALGOL definition committee (1958)%s19580527 00000528 First meeting of COBOL definition committee (eventually CODASYL) (1959)%s19590528 00000530 Colossus Mark II (1944)%s19440530 00000530 PDP 8 was announced. (1968)%s19680530 00000602 First issue of Computerworld (1967)%s19670602 00000605 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage. (1833)%s18330605 00000607 BSD UNIX 4.3 released (1986)%s19860607 00000609 Prime Computer, Inc. was founded. (1972)%s19720609 00000610 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II. (1977)%s19770610 00000615 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau (1951)%s19510615 00000616 First programming error at Census Bureau (apocryphal) (1951)%s19510616 00000617 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $94.13 a share (1981)%s19810617 00000619 Blaise Pascal (1623)%s16230619 00000622 Alan Turing, British computing pioneer. (1912)%s19120622 00000622 Konrad Zuse, Computing pioneer, built the Z1 in Germany during WWII (1910)%s19100622 00000623 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory. (1912)%s19120623 00000623 IBM unbundles software (1969)%s19690623 00000626 Maurice Wilkes, First described the stored program concept. (1913)%s19130626 00000627 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $89.28 a share (1979)%s19790627 00000630 First advanced degree on computer related topic to H. Karamanian, for symbolic differentiation on ENIAC (Temple University, Philadelphia, 1948)%s19480630 00000701 Gottfried Leibniz, Invented a calcuator which could multiply & (1646)%s16460701 00000707 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Invented a loom controlled by punched cards. (1752)%s17520707 00000708 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T) (1877)%s18770708 00000708 CDC was founded by former employees of Sperry-Rand. (1957)%s19570708 00000710 BSD UNIX 4.1 released (1981)%s19810710 00000713 Cleve Sinclair, British hardware hustler. (1940)%s19400713 00000714 Jay Forrester, Inventor of core memory, who later modelled the world. (1918)%s19180714 00000801 HP stock splits 2 for 1 at $89.88 a share (1983)%s19830801 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)%s19890806 00000806 BSD UNIX 4.2 released (1983)%s19830806 00000809 Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer. (1932)%s19320809 00000811 Stephen Wozniac, Cofounder of Apple. (1954)%s19540811 00000814 First Unix-based mallet created (1954)%s19540814 00000814 IBM PC announced (1981)%s19810814 00000822 CDC 6600 introduced (1963)%s19630822 00000823 DEC founded (1957)%s19570823 00000830 John Mauchly, Co-inventor of ENIAC (1907)%s19070830 00000903 Kathleen Jensen, Co-author of Pascal User Manual and Report. (1949)%s19490903 00000907 David Packard, Cofounded Hewlett Packard (1912)%s19120907 00000915 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) founded (1947)%s19470915 00000915 HP stock splits 3 for 1 at a price of $77 (1960)%s19600915 00000918 The 30th Mersenne Prime, 2^216091-1, is announced. It was discovered at Chevron Reaseach on their Cray X-MP. (1985)%s19850918 00000919 David Slowinski uses two Cray-1 supercomputers to discover the 29th Mersenne Prime, 2^132049-1 (1983)%s19830919 00000920 Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program (1954)%s19540920 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)%s19880925 00000928 Seymour Cray, Super computer builder. (1925)%s19250928 00001002 First robotics-based CAM (1939)%s19391002 00001004 John Atanasoff, Built one of the first electronic computers (1903)%s19031004 00001006 First GPSS manual published (1961)%s19611006 00001008 First VisiCalc prototype (1978)%s19781008 00001011 Doug McIlroy invents the pipe (or "hose," 1964)%s19641011 00001011 factoring of the first "hard" 100 digit number (11^104 + 1)/(11^8 + 1) achieved at 2AM PDT (1988)%s19881011 00001012 James Martin, Computer Guru. (1936)%s19361012 00001012 Steven Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, unveils the first computer by his new company NeXT (1988)%s19881012 00001012 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl (1962)%s19621012 00001014 British Computer Society founded (1957)%s19571014 00001015 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published 00001017 Ritchie and Thompson's UNIX paper (1973)%s19731017 00001019 BSD UNIX 4.0 released (1980)%s19801019 00001020 Zurich ALGOL report published (1958)%s19581020 00001023 The Open Software Foundation announced the release of the industry's first open computer operating system -- OSF/1 (1990)%s19901023 00001025 DEC announces VAX-11/780 00001101 fiscal new year for Hewlett Packard Company 00001102 George Boole (1815)%s18151102 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)%s19881102 00001104 UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes (1952)%s19521104 00001116 Gene Amdahl, Designer of IBM 360, Amdahl 470, and founder of TRILOGY. (1922)%s19221116 00001126 Norbert Weiner, Author of Cybernetics (1894)%s18941126 00001203 John Backus, Father of FORTRAN (1924)%s19241203 00001208 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, University of Pennsylvania (1965)%s19651208 00001209 Grace Hopper, Mother of COBOL (1909)%s19091209 00001210 Ada Augusta Lovelace, First programmer. (1815)%s18151210 00001226 Charles Babbage, Victorian computer architect. (1791)%s17911226 00001226 DPMA founded (1951)%s19511226 00001227 APT report published (1956)%s19561227 00001228 John Von Neumann, First suggested stored program model. (1903)%s19031228 19851105 At 0:53:20 GMT UNIX time reached the 500000000 (half billion) second mark (1985)%s19851105