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What happened in history on this day: January 1?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1975 - Bill Gates signs a document formalizing the existence of the Traf-O-Data company. Owners of assets are: Bill Gates 43%, Paul Allen 36%, and Paul Gilbert 21%. This step was necessary for Gates and Allen to use Traf-O-Data's 8008 simulator to develop BASIC for the Altair.
- 1982 - Trip Hawkins resigns as director of product marketing at Apple Computer.
- 2000 - Sri Lanka issues a series of postage stamps on the Year 2000, a 100-rupee stamp depicting a personal computer and a 100-rupee stamp depicting a man at a computer.
- 2001 - New Zealand issues a 40-cent postage stamp depicting a personal computer mouse, part of a series for the 100th anniversary of penny universal postage.
- 2001 - French Southern and Antarctic Territories issues a 27-franc postage stamp depicting a personal computer.
- 2002 - Palm Source becomes a subsidiary of Palm.
Video Game history:
- 1996 - Acclaim Entertainment releases the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 video game for the Saturn in the US.
- 1996 - Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat II video game for the Saturn in the US.
- 1996 - Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat 3 video game for the PlayStation in the US.
- 1997 - Acclaim Entertainment releases the Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2002 - Sony CEI releases the Gran Turismo Concept Tokyo 2001 video game for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. This is a scaled down version of Gran Turismo 3, with only Arcade mode, 20 Japanese concept cars, and five tracks. Price is 3200 yen (about US$26).
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