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What happened in history on this day: March 5?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1975 - Fred Moore and Gordon French hold the first meeting of a new microcomputer hobbyist's club in French's garage, in Menlo Park, California. 32 people meet, including Bob Albrect, Steve Dompier, Lee Felsenstein, Bob Marsh, Tom Pittman, Marty Spergel, Alan Baum, and Steven Wozniak. Bob Albrect shows off an Altair, and Steve Dompier reports on MITS, and how they had 4000 orders for the Altair.
- 1981 - Sinclair Research unveils the ZX81 in England, featuring 3.25-MHz NEC 780C-1 microprocessor, with 8 kB ROM, 1 kB RAM, for 69.95 pounds. An optional 16 kB RAM pack is 29.95 pounds. The computer incorporates four chips, compared to 21 in the ZX80.
- 2002 - Handspring resumes selling the Visor Platinum handheld computer, for US$169.
Video Game history:
- 2001 - Nintendo releases the Conker's Bad Fur Day video game for the Nintendo 64 in the USA.
- 2002 - Midway releases the Gauntlet: Dark Legacy video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2007 - 2K Sports releases the Major League Baseball 2K7 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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