This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
October 9

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What happened in history on this day: October 9?

On October 9 in ...

Personal Computer history:

  • 1998 - Hayes again files for bankruptcy protection.
  • 1999 - Philips Electronics announces it is discontinuing its line of Nino 200 and 500 handheld computers.
  • 2000 - El Salvador issues a 5-col postage stamp depicting a personal computer.
  • 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices introduces the 1.33 GHz Athlon XP 1500+ processor. It features 64 kB Level 1 data cache, 64 kB Level 1 instruction cache, 256 kB Level 2 cache, three pipelined FPUs, 4 GB address space, and 266 MHz system bus. It supports MMX, 3DNow!, Enhanced 3DNow!, 3DNow! Professional instructions. It incorporates 37.5 million transistors in a 0.18-micron process. Price is US$160 in 1000-unit quantities. Code-name during development was Palomino, and briefly Corvette. "XP" stands for extreme performance.
  • 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 1600+ processor. Price is US$160.
  • 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 1700+ processor. Price is US$190.
  • 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the 1.53 GHz Athlon XP 1800+ processor. Price is US$252.
  • 2001 - The US Supreme Court rejects Microsoft's request to hear an appeal of its antitrust case.
  • 2003 - Egypt issues a postage stamp depicting a personal computer.
  • 2003 - Iran issues a 600 rial postage stamp for World Post Day, depicting a laptop computer.
  • 2005 - For one day only, CompUSA offers for sale a US$99.99 computer made by Systemax and sponsored by America Online. The computer features an Intel Celeron processor, monitor, and printer. Purchasers must sign up for a year of AOL at $23.90 a month.
Video Game history:

  • 2001 - The Fox television network in the US airs the Undeclared program, showing someone using a PlayStation 2.
  • 2007 - Sony announces a price drop of the PlayStation 3 in Japan, to 44,980 yen (20 GB) and 54,980 yen (60 GB).
  • 2007 - Electronic Arts releases The Orange Box video game for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in the US.
  • 2007 - Square Enix releases the Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions video game for the PlayStation Portable in the US.
  • 2012 - Bethesda releases the Dishonored video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
  • 2012 - 2K Games releases the XCOM: Enemy Unknown video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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