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What happened in history on this day: February 7?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1981 - Steve Wozniak's private plane crashes during take-off, near the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. The accident leaves him with a loss of short-term memory, lasting for over a month.
- 1984 - Victor Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 1997 - Microsoft announces it is ceasing development of Windows NT for systems using PowerPC processors.
- 1997 - In San Francisco, California, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference is held. Intel previews a next-generation Pentium processor (code-named Deschutes) running at 433 MHz.
- 1997 - Apple Computer completes its acquisition of Next Software, for a total cost of US$430 million.
- 2000 - In Canada, Corel annouces the intent to purchase Inprise for US$1.1 billion in stock.
- 2000 - At the International Solid State Circuits Conference, Advanced Micro Devices demonstrates an Athlon processor operating at 1.1 GHz. Intel demonstrates a prototype 1 GHz Pentium III processor.
Video Game history:
- 1983 - Atari seeks a legal injunction against Coleco Industries to stop it from selling its Colecovision adapter to play Atari cartridges.
- 2005 - At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, California, engineers from Sony, IBM, and Toshiba reveal specifications for the Cell processor. Sony will use the Cell in its next-generation PlayStation console. The Cell will have a 64-bit IBM Power processor and eight processing units capable of handling separate computing tasks. The processor is expected to run at speeds faster than 4GHz, process 256 billion calculations per second, incorporate 2.5 MB of on-chip memory and have the ability to transfer data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second. The chip will incorporate 234 million transistors and be produced using advanced 90-nanometer chipmaking processes.
- 2006 - Konami releases the Winning Eleven 9 video game for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox in the US.
- 2011 - Nintendo releases the Mario Sports Mix video game for the Nintendo Wii in the US.
- 2012 - Nintendo releases the Circle Pad Pro for the Nintendo 3DS in the US. The accessory adds a second analog Circle Pad controller, and a second set of shoulder buttons. Price is US$19.99.
- 2012 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil: Revelations video game for the Nintendo 3DS in the US.
- 2012 - Electronic Arts releases the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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