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What happened in history on this day: February 2?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1996 - At an emergency meeting of the board of directors of Apple Computer in New York, CEO Michael Spindler is replaced by Gilbert Amelio.
- 1999 - Sun Microsystems begins shipping the SunPCi expansion card for Sun Ultra workstation computers. The card contains an Advanced Micro Devices 300 MHz K6-2 processor, Caldera's DR-DOS operating system, 645 to 256 MB RAM, Sound Blaster sound, serial/parallel/USB ports, 24-bit graphics. Applications running on the card can access the workstation's drives and network connection. Price is US$495.
- 2000 - San Marino issues a postage stamp depicting a person at a computer, in a series of millennium stamps.
- 2004 - Intel introduces the 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, and 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 processors, with 800 MHz front-side bus and 1 MB cache. Prices are US$178, US$218, US$278, US$417 respectively, in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2004 - Intel releases the 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor, with 2 MB cache and 800 MHz front-side bus. Price is US$999 in 1000-unit quantities.
Video Game history:
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. When faced with loading a large number of objects into his car, a character comments that "this is what all those hours of playing Tetris were for". The objects assume the shapes of Tetris shapes, and the game music can be heard.
- 2004 - Vivendi Universal releases The Fast and the Furious video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2006 - Tiger Telematics, maker of the Gizmondo, files for bankruptcy.
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