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