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What happened in history on this day: December 31?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1975 - To date, MITS has sold 2,000 Altair 8800 systems. IMS Associates has shipped 50 IMSAI 8080 systems.
- 1976 - To date, MITS has shipped over 10,000 Altair 8800 kits.
- 1978 - Total industry sales of personal computers to date: 200,000, valued at US$500 million.
- 1978 - Shipments of floppy disks to date: 270,000.
- 1979 - Number of floppy disk drives manufactured to date: 2.5 million.
- 1981 - Shipments of floppy disks to date: over 250 million.
- 1982 - Shipments of Commodore VIC-20 computers to date: 750,000.
- 1982 - Shipments of Timex Timex/Sinclair 1000 computers to date: 600,000.
- 1982 - Shipments of Texas Instruments TI 99/4 computers to date: 575,000.
- 1983 - Shipments of IBM PC computers to date: one million.
- 1984 - Shipments of the IBM JX personal computer in Japan to date: about 6,000.
- 1984 - Shipments of the Commodore 64 to date: 3.5 million.
- 1987 - Shipments of IBM PS/2 Model 30 computers to date: 350,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of Apple IIgs computers to date: 340,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of IBM PS/2 Model 50 computers to date: 308,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of IBM PC AT Model 5170 computers to date: 263,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of Atari 130XE and 65XE computers to date: 261,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of MS-DOS to date: 10.5 million.
- 1987 - Shipments of Apple Macintosh SE computers to date: 255,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of Apple IIe computers to date: 231,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of IBM PC XT Model 5160 computers to date: 217,000.
- 1987 - Shipments of Leading Edge PC Model D computers to date: 210,000.
- 1990 - At the end of the year, 29% of American households with TV sets also have a personal computer. 7.6% have a CD-ROM drive on their PC, and 17% have a modem on the PC.
- 1991 - Shipments of Apple Macintosh computers to date: 7 million.
- 1991 - Total sales of Lotus 1-2-3 to date: 16 million.
- 1991 - Total shipments of Microsoft Windows 3.0 to date: 15 million.
- 1992 - Unit shipments of personal computers worldwide to date: about 135 million.
- 1993 - Shipments of IBM OS/2 2.1 to date: 3 million.
- 1994 - Shipments of Windows NT to date: 1 million.
- 1994 - Shipments of Windows to date: 50-60 million.
- 1994 - Shipments of OS/2 2.0 (and higher) to date: nearly 10 million.
- 1996 - IBM announces it has developed a hard drive storing 5 gigabits per square inch. Drives could be released for sale in a few years.
- 1996 - Shipments of Windows 95 operating system to date: about 65 million.
- 1999 - Shipments of CD-R discs worldwide to date: 1.4 billion.
- 1999 - Shipments of CD-RW drives to date: 14 million.
- 2004 - Microsoft officially ends support for Windows NT 4.0.
Video Game history:
- 1981 - Percent of US homes with a cartridge-based video game system: 9%. 80% of them are Atari systems.
- 1981 - Unit sales of Atari VCS game systems to date: 6 million.
- 1982 - Unit sales of home video game systems to date: 15 million.
- 1986 - To date, Nintendo has sold almost two million Disk Systems for the Famicom in Japan.
- 1987 - Unit sales to date of Nintendo Entertainment System game systems: about 4 million.
- 1988 - Unit sales to date of Nintendo Entertainment System game systems: about 11 million.
- 1989 - Unit sales to date of Nintendo Entertainment System game systems: about 20 million.
- 1990 - To date, Nintendo has sold 4.4 million Disk Systems for the Famicom.
- 1990 - Unit sales to date of Nintendo Entertainment System game systems: about 27.5 million.
- 1991 - NEC releases the PC Engine Super CD-ROM2 for the PC Engine in Japan.
- 1992 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems worldwide to date: 32.2 million.
- 1992 - Unit sales of Nintendo Entertainment Systems worldwide to date: 64.2 million.
- 1992 - Unit sales of Super Nintendo Entertainment System game systems worldwide to date: 17.8 million.
- 1993 - Unit sales of the video game Double Dragon to date: 8 million copies.
- 1994 - Shipments of home video games in the US to date: 40 million.
- 1995 - Squaresoft releases the Final Fantasy IV video game for the PlayStation.
- 1999 - Unit shipments of Nintendo's Mario Party video game in the USA to date: 1.15 million.
- 2003 - Total worldwide sales to date of Halo video game for the Xbox: 4 million.
- 2003 - Total shipments of video game systems in the US to date: Xbox 8.6 million, GameCube 6.8 million.
- 2003 - Total shipments to date of video game systems worldwide: Xbox 13.7 million, PlayStation 2 70 million.
- 2003 - Total shipments of Game Boy Advance video game systems in the world to date: 8.1 million.
- 2004 - Total unit sales of the Final Fantasy video game series to date: Japan 28.8 million, USA 18.2 million, Europe 8.7 million.
- 2005 - Total sales of Game Boy Advance series worldwide to date: 74 million.
- 2007 - Sales to date of video game systems in the US: Xbox 360 9.2 million, Nintendo Wii 7.4 million, PlayStation 3 3.3 million.
- 2007 - Sales to date of Xbox 360 systems worldwide: 17.7 million.
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