This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
November 3

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What happened in history on this day: November 3?

On November 3 in ...

Personal Computer history:

  • 1988 - (to November 6) In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first World of Commodore trade show is held.
  • 1997 - Umax Computer introduces the C500/240 Macintosh-compatible computer. It features 240 MHz PowerPC 603e, 3 GB hard drive, 24 MB RAM, CD-ROM. Price is US$1295.
  • 2000 - Columbia Pictures releases the film Charlie's Angels to theaters in the USA and Canada. The motherboard of an Apple PowerMac G3 can be seen as part of a mainframe computer.
  • 2003 - Intel releases the 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor, with 2 MB cache. Price is US$925 in 1000-unit quantities.
Video Game history:

  • 1999 - Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. A "Chinpokomon" video game system appears, which gives one of the kids a seizure.
  • 2000 - Columbia Pictures releases the film Charlie's Angels to theaters in the USA and Canada. A video game system running Final Fantasy VIII is played by kids on a TV.
  • 2003 - Microsoft announces it has licensed processor technology from IBM, and chipset technology from Silicon Integrated Systems, for use in its next video game system.
  • 2004 - Nintendo begins taking orders for the Nintendo DS on Internet shopping sites. After receiving two million orders during the day, most sites are closed to taking any further orders.
  • 2004 - Sony releases the new smaller PlayStation 2 video game system in Japan.
  • 2014 - Activision Blizzard releases the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video game for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 in the USA.
  • 2017 - Activision Blizzard releases the Call of Duty: World War II video game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the USA.

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