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What happened in history on this day: May 9?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1988 - COMDEX/Spring is held in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1989 - IBM introduces the IBM PS/2 Model P70 386 computer. It features MCA, 20 MHz 80386, 60 MB hard drive. Weight is 20 pounds. Price is US$7695. Price with 120 MB hard drive is US$8295.
- 1989 - IBM introduces the IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX computer. It features 16 MHz 80386SX processor, MCA slots, 30 MB hard drive, 2 MB DRAM, 1.44 MB 3.5-inch floppy drive, VGA, 13-inch color monitor. Price is US$3895. Price with 60 MB hard drive is US$4295.
- 1989 - Apple Computer announces details of the System 7.0 operating system for the Macintosh.
- 1997 - Umax Computer announces the SuperMac C500LT/140 computer. It features Macintosh compatibility, 140 MHz PowerPC 603e processor, 8X CD-ROM drive, 1.2 GB hard drive, floppy drive, two PCI slots. Price is US$999.
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A t-shirt shows "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN", a reference to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system on a personal computer with a hard drive. A personal computer is shown, with monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
- 2007 - Intel releases the 1.8 GHz Core2Duo Mobile T7100 processor, with 4 MB cache, and 800 MHz front-sidede bus. Price is US$209 in quantites of 1000. Model T7300 (2 GHz) costs US$241; model T7500 (2.2 GHz) costs US$316; and model T7700 (2.4 GHz) costs US$530.
Video Game history:
- 1973 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer generally releases the film Soylent Green to theaters in the USA. The arcade video game Computer Space appears.
- 2002 - Sony announces that as of May 5, it has shipped 30 million PlayStation 2 systems worldwide: 11.3 million in North America, 9.9 million in Japan, and 8.8 million in Europe.
- 2005 - Nintendo releases the Donkey Konga 2 video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2005 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. The characters go to a videogame arcade and play "CATFIGHTER".
- 2005 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. One scene takes place in a party restaurant, with several arcade video games.
- 2006 - At a press conference in Los Angeles before the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo announces the release name for its next-generation console system: Wii, shows a conventional controller for it, and demonstrates The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Galaxy for it. Nintendo says it has sold 16 million Nintendo DS systems worldwide.
- 2010 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A parody of the Nintendo Wii Dance Dance Revolution video game appears, as the Zii Dance Dance Evolution.
- 2017 - Devolver Digital releases the Strafe video game for the Playstation 4 in the USA.
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