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What happened in history on this day: January 6?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1981 - Jack Tramiel resigns as president of Commodore International, but remains as chief executive officer. James Finke becomes new president and chief operating officer.
- 1981 - Microsoft and Seattle Computer Products sign a licensing agreement giving Microsoft a non-exclusive right to market 86-DOS. SCP receives US$10,000 for signing, US$10,000 per sublicense through Microsoft, and US$5,000 if source code is part of the sublicense.
- 1984 - In Tokyo, Japan, Hitachi announces it has developed the world's first memory chip with the capacity of 1 megabit.
- 1984 - The International Winter Consumer Electronics Show is held, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1984 - At the Winter CES, Coleco Industries announces a disk drive for the Adam computer.
- 1993 - MacWorld Exposition '93 is held, in San Francisco, California.
- 1995 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Winter Consumer Electronics Show is held, over four days. Microsoft's Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Bob, an application for Windows consumer users, with a "social interface". The code name for the project was "Utopia".
- 1999 - At the Macworld Expo, Connectix releases the Virtual Game Station software for the Apple Macintosh computer, allowing users to play Sony PlayStation video games on their computers. Price is US$49.
- 2000 - At the Consumer Electronics Show, Advanced Micro Devices, KryoTech, and Compaq Computer demonstrate a specially-cooled 1 GHz Athlon processor running in a Compaq computer.
- 2000 - At the Consumer Electronics Show, Advanced Micro Devices releases the 800 MHz Athlon processor.
- 2003 - In San Francisco, California, the Macworld Conference and Expo is held, over five days.
- 2004 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 3400+ processor with 1 MB level 2 cache. Price is US$417 in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2004 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ processors for notebook computers. Price is US$193 (2800+) in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2005 - The Consumer Electronics Show is held in Las Vegas, Nevada, over four days.
- 2008 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Laptop computers appear, on a pool table, in a bar.
Video Game history:
- 1995 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Winter Consumer Electronics Show is held, over four days. Nintendo shows the Virtual Boy video game system, featuring a red color 3-D world. Price is to be under US$200.
- 1999 - At the Macworld Expo, Connectix releases the Virtual Game Station software in the US. for the Apple Macintosh computer, allowing users to play Sony PlayStation games on their computers. Price is US$49.
- 2001 - At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveils the Xbox video game system. It features 733 MHz processor, large hard drive, and 250 MHz graphics processor. Target release date is October.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. A "what if" scenario is shown: "what if life were more like a video game".
- The space ship in Asteroids shoots some asteroids, then lands in the main building.
- The president of the Earth signs peace with Ambassador Kong (Donkey Kong) of planet Nintendo 64.
- The Donkey Kong character throws barrels, climbs ladders, and the sounds of the Donkey Kong video game can be heard.
- The Mario character also appears, as the representative of Italy.
- A green wireframe tank from Battle Zone roams the street.
- Doors in a military building are labelled Missile Command, Secretary of Defender, and Moon Patrol.
- To enter the War Room, a message is displayed "You need the blue key", like in games like Doom.
- Monitors in the War Room show Centipede playing.
- The main general is Pac-Man.
- One sequence takes place on a full-screen Pac-Man board, complete with ghosts, pellets, and power pills.
- A group of people escape out of a Warp Pipe from Super Mario Bros..
- Above the city, a real game of Space Invaders takes place, with the familiar alien ships advancing left, right, and down.
- One of the main characters plays Space Invaders on an arcade machine, shooting the ships above the city.
- When General Pac-Man is killed, Ms. Pac-man mourns his loss.
- When the last space ship lands on Earth, out steps Donkey Kong, an egg from Burger Time, Q*Bert, the main Robotron character and one of the brain people.
- A character says "All your base are belong to us", a reference to an English translation of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan.
- 2004 - Sega releases the Sonic Heroes video game for the GameCube in the US.
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