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What happened in history on this day: January 29?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1987 - Microsoft begins shipping Microsoft Word 3.0 for the Macintosh.
- 1988 - Spectrum Holobyte introduces the Tetris computer game in the US. Price is US$34.95 for the IBM PC, and US$24.95 for the Commodore 64. This is the first entertainment software imported to the US from the Soviet Union. The game was written by Vagim Gerasimov and Alexi Paszitnov at the Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
- 1998 - An auction is held for Power Computing assets.
- 2001 - Compaq introduces the iPaq Pocket PC H3150 handheld computer. It features 206 MHz Intel StrongArm processor, 16 MB RAM, grayscale screen. Price is US$349.
- 2002 - Handspring begins selling its Treo 180 and 180g handheld computers in Hong Kong.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer is on the desk of a school secretary. A woman says "...not to mention this PowerPoint demonstration he did just last week".
Video Game history:
- 1998 - Square releases the Final Fantasy Tactics video game for the PlayStation in the US.
- 2000 - At the Pacifico Yokohama building in Yokohama, Japan, Square holds its Square Millenium party for 10,000 guests. Square announces three new Final Fantasy video games for initial release in Japan: Final Fantasy IX for the PlayStation scheduled for summer release, Final Fantasy X for the PlayStation 2 scheduled for spring 2001 release, and Final Fantasy XI for the PlayStation 2 with PlayOnline scheduled for summer 2001 release. Square shows a brief trailer for the film Final Fantasy: The Movie.
- 2001 - British television set-top box maker Pace Micro Technology announces it is integrating video game technology from Sega into its digital video recorder.
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