This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
December 22

What happened in history on this day: December 22? On December 22 in ... Personal Computer history: 1982 - IBM announces it will acquire 12 percent of Intel shares for US$250 million. 1993 - Microsoft ships Excel 5.0 for Windows. 2009 - United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds a US$290 million jury verdict for i4i against Microsoft for patent infringement by the Microsoft Word program. Microsoft is barred from selling the current Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office as of January 11. The company will modify the programs to remove the disputed feature, which relates to the use of XML. Video Game history: 1966 - Ralph Baer at Sanders Associates completes the basic circuitry dubbed TV Game Unit 1 to make spots on a television screen chase each other. He shows corporate R&D director Herb Campman. Campman agrees to commence an official secret project, with $2000 for labor and $500 for materials. 2000 - Ravisent Technologies announces that Microsoft has selected the company to supply DVD playback software for Microsoft's Xbox video game system. vvv advertisement vvv ^^^ advertisement ^^^ You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history. Bookmark this URL:   http://kpolsson.com/thisday/compvid/   and revisit each day. (this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events) Or, visit my Timelines of History page.

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