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What happened in history on this day: January 8?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1982 - The US Justice Department decides to drop its antitrust suit against IBM, which was launched 13 years ago. One of its aims had been to break IBM up into several companies.
- 1992 - IBM announces price reductions of 10-16% on PS/2 systems.
- 1992 - IBM begins shipping a 386SX upgrade for the PS/2 Model 57SX, giving it up to 88% faster performance.
- 1997 - Intel releases the 166 MHz and 200 MHz Pentium processors with MMX multimedia extension instructions. Bus speed is 66 MHz. They incorporate 4.5 million transistors. Performance of the 200 MHz version is 350 MIPS. Code-name during development was P55C. MMX originally stood for "matrix-multiplication extensions".
- 1997 - Intel releases the 150 MHz and 166 MHz Pentium processors for notebook computers, with MMX multimedia extension instructions.
- 1998 - The International Consumer Electronics Show is held at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
- 2001 - Advanced Micro Devices launches the 850 MHz Duron processor. Price is US$149 in 1000 unit quantities.
- 2002 - Gateway warns that fourth quarter sales results will be 17 percent below expectations. Its stock value drops 25%.
- 2002 - IBM announces it will no longer manufacture desktop personal computers in most of the world. It will sell its desktop facilities in US and Europe to Sanmina-SCI.
- 2007 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Winter Consumer Electronics Show is held, over four days.
- 2007 - In San Francisco, California, the Macworld Conference and Expo is held, over five days.
- 2009 - At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Palm debuts its overhauled mobile operating system, the Palm Web OS.
Video Game history:
- 1991 - American Video Entertainment files a US$105 million lawsuit against Nintendo, accusing the company of violation of anti-trust laws, by trying to prevent compatible game cartridges into the marketplace. American Video Entertainment had developed technology to allow their game cartridges to be played on Nintendo machines.
- 1993 - At the Winter CES show, Jeff Hansen again defeats Yuichi Suyama, remaining World Nintendo Champion for 1993.
- 1994 - At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, representatives of the video game industry begin drafting a common rating system for content of video games.
- 1994 - Sega announces it is withdrawing the Night Trap video game for re-editing, and will re-release the game when a common rating system is in place.
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