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What happened in history on this day: April 15?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1977 - The First Annual West Coast Computer Faire is held, in San Francisco's Brooks Civic Auditorium, over three days. 12,750 attended the weekend event.
- 1997 - Samsung Electronics agrees to acquire the remaining 51 percent of AST Research, for US$5.40 per share, worth about US$170 million.
- 1998 - Intel announces the 266 MHz Celeron processor with 32 kB Level 1 cache. The Celeron is a Pentium II processor with no secondary cache. Name of the processor was chosen with help from Lexicon Branding, Inc. Code-name during development was Covington.
- 1999 - Bleem releases the bleem! PlayStation game emulator for Windows-based personal computers in the USA. Price is US$24.95 via Web site download.
- 2010 - Uzbekistan issues a postage stamp depicting personal computers.
Video Game history:
- 1997 - Disney Interactive lays off about 20 percent of its workforce, ending in-house production of video games.
- 1999 - Sega of America announces the Dreamcast video game system will be released in the US on September 9, for retail price of US$199. The company will spend US$100 million marketing the system.
- 1999 - Bleem releases the bleem! PlayStation game emulator for Windows-based personal computers in the USA. Price is US$24.95 via Web site download.
- 2002 - Capcom releases the Breath of Fire II video game for the Game Boy Advance in the US. Price is US$39.99.
- 2008 - Sony CE releases the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue video game for the PlayStation 3 in the US.
- 2011 - 2K Sports releases the Top Spin 4 video game for the PlayStation 3 in the US.
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