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What happened in history on this day: May 10?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1984 - Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP 110 laptop computer. It features 5.33 MHz 8086, 272 kB RAM, 384 kB ROM, flip-up LCD display displaying 80x16 text or 480x120 graphics, MS-DOS 2.11, and 300-bps modem. The ROM chip contains Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, MemoMaker word processor, Infocom's Zork game, and a communications package. Weight is under 8.5 pounds; price is US$2995.
- 1996 - Apple Computer halts PowerBook 5300 production and initiates a recall.
- 2000 - Microsoft offers a package of restrictions on its business practices to the Department of Justice, in place of the proposed break-up of the company.
- 2004 - Intel launches the Pentium M 735, 745, and 755, in speeds of 1.7, 1.8, and 2.0 GHz respectively. They feature 2 MB level 2 cache and 400 MHz front-side bus. The processors are manufactured in a 0.90-micron process. Code-name during development was Dothan.
Video Game history:
- 1983 - Atari forms a joint venture with MCA Video Games, to create coin-operated video games, home video games, and computer software based on motion pictures, television, and other MCA properties.
- 2000 - Universal Studios in California hosts the world-premiere showing of the Metal Gear Solid 2 video game for the PlayStation 2.
- 2000 - At Sony Studios in Los Angeles, California, Sony announces initial pricing (US$299), American launch date (October 26), and further details of the PlayStation 2. There are likely to be 51 games available at launch, with Sony games to retail at US$49 each. The system will include one DualShock 2 controller. Extra controllers, 8 MB card, multitap attachment to cist US$34 each. The system will include DVD decoder in the chipset.
- 2000 - Nintendo releases the Funtastic Series of Nintendo 64 consoles in semi-transparent cases: Watermelon, Ice, Jungle, Fire, Smoke, and Grape.
- 2000 - In Los Angeles, California, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. Total attendance is 57,800.
- 2002 - Triton Labs ships the Afterburner lighted flat-panel display kit for the Game Boy Advance in the US. Price is U$35.
- 2004 - Microsoft holds a press conference in Los Angeles, California. A video is shown titled The Novice, with Donald Trump poking fun at fake Sony executives, and praising Microsoft executives for their online video game strategies. Microsoft announces it will release Halo 2 with multiplayer support on November 9. Electronic Arts announces it will begin including Xbox Live support in its games. Sale to date of the Xbox: 14 million.
- 2004 - At the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, the Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy concert is held, running for two hours, sponsored by Square Enix. Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale performing fourteen songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu from the Final Fantasy video games.
- 2005 - SNK releases the Metal Slug 4&5 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2006 - In Los Angeles, California, the Electronics Entertainment Expo is held, over three days.
- 2006 - At the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says Nintendo is unlikely to produce a new version of the Game Boy Advance in the future.
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