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What happened in history on this day: February 16?
On February 16 in ...
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Personal Computer history:
- 1984 - IBM introduces the IBM Portable Personal Computer. It features 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor, 256 kB RAM, 9-inch amber monitor, 80x25 text, CGA graphics, 360 kB 5.25-inch drive, DOS 2.1. Price is US$2795. It weighs 30 pounds.
- 1995 - At the International Solid State Circuits Conference, Intel formally announces details of the design of the P6 processor.
- 1997 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. In the title scene, an Apple Computer Macintosh-style window makes a parody of the America Online software, calling it America Onlink, with a very slow loading of artwork for the show's family characters.
Video Game history:
- 1993 - In Japan, Fujitsu introduces the Marty model of the FM Towns line of computer/game system. Marty has no keyboard, and plugs into a television. Software is run from a CD-ROM drive. Price is about US$800.
- 1997 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A sit-down arcade game is played in a store, called Astro Blast.
- 1999 - The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is held in San Francisco, California. Toshiba and Sony Computer Entertainment announce specifications of a new processor. It has two integer pipelines, two vector math units, dedicated MPEG-2 decoding subsystem, 128-bit chip, 250 MHz operation, and 125 MHz bus to memory.
- 2000 - In Tokyo, Japan, Sega releases the Dreameye digital camera for the Dreamcast video game system.
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A video game is played on a big-screen television.
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. At a boring event, a child says "I didn't bring a Game Boy".
- 2004 - THQ releases the MX Unleashed video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2006 - Capcom releases the Mega Man Anniversary Collection video game for the Game Boy Advance in the US.
- 2009 - Nintendo releases the Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon video game for the Nintendo DS in the USA.
- 2011 - Konami releases the Hard Corps: Uprising video game for the Xbox 360 in the US.
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