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Annotation of src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer, Revision 1.1

1.1     ! deraadt     1: 01/01  AT&T officially divests its local Bell companies, 1984
        !             2: 01/01  The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT, 1970)
        !             3: 01/03  Apple Computer founded, 1977
        !             4: 01/08  American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982
        !             5: 01/08  Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889
        !             6: 01/08  Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982
        !             7: 01/10  First CDC 1604 delivered to Navy, 1960
        !             8: 01/16  Set uid bit patent issued, to Dennis Ritchie, 1979
        !             9: 01/17  Justice Dept. begins IBM anti-trust suit, 1969 (drops it, 01/08/82)
        !            10: 01/24  DG Nova introduced, 1969
        !            11: 01/25  First U.S. meeting of ALGOL definition committee, 1958
        !            12: 01/26  EDVAC demonstrated, 1952
        !            13: 01/31  Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
        !            14: 02/11  Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp., 1966
        !            15: 02/14  First micro-on-a-chip patented (TI), 1978
        !            16: 02/15  ENIAC demonstrated, 1946
        !            17: 03/01  First NPL (later PL/I) report published, 1964
        !            18: 03/04  First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos
        !            19: 03/09  "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968
        !            20: 03/14  LISP introduced, 1960
        !            21: 03/28  DEC announces PDP-11, 1970
        !            22: 03/31  Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946
        !            23: 04/01  Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974  (It figures.)
        !            24: 04/03  IBM 701 introduced, 1953
        !            25: 04/04  Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores)
        !            26: 04/07  IBM announces System/360, 1964
        !            27: 04/09  ENIAC Project begun, 1943
        !            28: 04/28  Zilog Z-80 introduced
        !            29: 05/06  EDSAC demonstrated, 1949
        !            30: 05/01  First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964
        !            31: 05/16  First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
        !            32: 05/21  DEC announces PDP-8
        !            33: 05/22  Ethernet first described, 1973
        !            34: 05/27  First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958
        !            35: 05/28  First meeting of COBOL definition cte. (eventually CODASYL), 1959
        !            36: 05/30  Colossus Mark II, 1944
        !            37: 06/02  First issue of Computerworld, 1967
        !            38: 06/10  First Apple II shipped, 1977
        !            39: 06/15  UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
        !            40: 06/16  First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
        !            41: 06/23  IBM unbundles software, 1969
        !            42: 06/23  Turing's Birthday, 1912
        !            43: 06/30  First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
        !            44:        Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
        !            45: 07/08  Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
        !            46: 07/08  CDC incorporated, 1957
        !            47: 08/14  First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
        !            48: 08/14  IBM PC announced, 1981
        !            49: 08/22  CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
        !            50: 08/23  DEC founded, 1957
        !            51: 09/15  ACM founded, 1947
        !            52: 09/20  Harlan Herrick runs first FORTRAN program, 1954
        !            53: 10/02  First robotics-based CAM, 1939
        !            54: 10/06  First GPSS manual published, 1961
        !            55: 10/08  First VisiCalc prototype, 1978
        !            56: 10/12  Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl, 1962
        !            57: 10/14  British Computer Society founded, 1957
        !            58: 10/15  First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published
        !            59: 10/20  Zurich ALGOL report published, 1958
        !            60: 10/25  DEC announces VAX-11/780
        !            61: 11/04  UNIVAC I program predicts Eisenhower victory based on 7% of votes, 1952
        !            62: 12/08  First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965