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What happened in history on this day: May 24?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1985 - An executive staff meeting is held at Apple Computer. John Sculley confronts Steve Jobs over rumors of a takeover while Sculley would be away in China. Jobs says Sculley should leave the company, but most of the senior staff support Sculley staying.
- 1993 - The Spring Comdex and Windows World conferences are held in Atlanta, Georgia, over four days.
- 1993 - At the COMDEX show, Microsoft formally launches the Windows NT operating system. Initial version is 3.1. Price is US$495, or US$295 as an upgrade from a previous Windows operating system. The software comprises over 4 million lines of code.
- 1999 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Mobile AMD-K6-III-P processor, in speeds of 350, 366, and 380 MHz. Prices are US$249, US$316, and US$349 respectively, in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2000 - Intel releases the 933 MHz Pentium III processor. It features 256 kB of Level 2 on-chip cache. Price is US$794 in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2007 - Dell announces it will start selling its personal computers in retail stores, beginning with two models in Wal-Mart stores. Also, Dell begins offering systems pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux 7.
Video Game history:
- 1972 - Magnavox and Sanders Associates hold an open house at the Airport Marina in Burlingame, California, to introduce the Odyssey video game console. Nolan Bushnell attends and plays the game.
- 1991 - TriStar Pictures releases the film Hudson Hawk to theaters in the USA. A character says "Will you play Nintendo with me?". A crime family in New Jersey is known as "the Mario Brothers".
- 1993 - Sega of America announces it will introduce, in August, a rating system for its video games: GA (general audience), MA-13 (mature, minimum age 13), and MA-17 (mature, minimum age 17).
- 2011 - Codemasters releases the Dirt 3 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
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