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What happened in history on this day: December 3?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1976 - Pertec Computer signs a letter of intent to acquire MITS for US$6 million of stock.
- 1987 - The 5th annual World of Commodore show is held, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, over four days.
- 2000 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
- A scene takes place in a computer store. One computer looks like a new Apple Macintosh, with front carrying handle.
- Personal computers appear at many people's houses.
- A Web site includes the "Flying Toasters" animation, from Berkeley Softworks' After Dark program.
- 2009 - Intel unveils a prototype processor with 48 separate processing cores. The Single-chip Cloud Computer contains 1.3 billion transistors, and is based on Intel's X86 architecture.
Video Game history:
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character says "Ms. Pacman struck a blow for women's rights" (in the spring of 1983). A flashback scene shows kids playing "early" arcade video games: Mumblity Peg, Stickball, and Kick the Can.
- 1994 - Sony introduces the PlayStation in Japan. It features a 33 MHz 32-bit MIPS R3000A processor, with special audio and graphics functions integrated, geometry coprocessor, 2 MB RAM, 1 MB video RAM. Graphics resolution is 640x480 in 24-bit color. Price is 39800 yen, about US$399. Sony spent US$500 million developing the system. Code name during development was Play Station X.
- 1994 - Namco releases the Ridge Racer video game for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 1996 - Acclaim Entertainment releases the Mortal Kombat Trilogy video game for the Saturn in the US.
- 2001 - Nintendo releases the Super Smash Bros. Melee video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2001 - Nintendo releases the Pikmin video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2003 - Rockstar releases the Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US and Canada.
- 2003 - Eidos releases the Deus Ex: Invisible War video game for the Xbox in the US.
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