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What happened in history on this day: February 11?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1983 - A Taipei, Taiwan, district criminal court dismisses Apple Computer's charges against Sunrise Computer Service and Golden Formosa Microcomputer of making and selling pirated copies of patented Apple software products.
- 1985 - Texas Instruments begins volume production of 256 kilobit DRAM chips.
- 1985 - Franklin Computer emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 1985 - Digital Equipment concedes it has ceased production of the Rainbow computer.
- 1991 - Apple Computer announces a revised Portable computer with backlighting.
- 2000 - Advanced Micro Devices introduces the 850 MHz Athlon processor. Price is US$849 in 1000 unit quantities.
- 2007 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A laptop computer is used for writing a story.
Video Game history:
- 1990 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. Two characters play a boxing home video game "Super Slugfest" on the TV, using single-button joysticks. One character goes to the arcade to practice on the arcade version.
- 1990 - Enix releases the Dragon Quest IV video game for the Famicom in Japan. On the first day in stores, 1.3 million copies are sold, for about US$75 each. The game is released on a Sunday; previous three releases were on a week day. A Japanese law prohibited the release of a new Dragon Quest game on a week day.
- 1993 - Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat video game Version 4.0 (T-Unit) to arcades in the US.
- 1999 - Square releases the Final Fantasy VIII video game for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 2000 - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses an earlier ruling that prevented Connectix from shipping the Virtual Game Station PlayStation emulator software for the Macintosh.
- 2002 - Nintendo releases the Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 for the Game Boy Advance in the US.
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