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What happened in history on this day: May 28?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1982 - Trip Hawkins founds Amazin' Games company (later changed to Electronic Arts).
- 1985 - Apple Computer's board of directors decides to remove Steve Jobs as general manager of the Macintosh division.
- 1996 - Apple Computer announces the Macintosh Performa 6320CD computer. It features 120 MHz 603e PowerPC processor, 16 MB RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive, CD-ROM drive, sixteen preinstalled titles and fifteen CD-ROM titles. Price is US$2599.
- 1999 - In the antitrust case against Microsoft, Garry Norris, IBM's former director of software strategy and strategic relations, claims that Microsoft threatened to withhold a license to Windows unless IBM dropped support for Netscape Navigator, Lotus Notes, and other software.
- 2010 - Apple begins sales of the iPad tablet computer outside the USA (Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Britain, Japan, Australia, and Canada).
Video Game history:
- 1992 - The Summer Consumer Electronics Show is held in Chicago, Illinois, over four days. For the first time, the public is allowed in for the last two days.
- Nintendo has a 76,000 square foot booth, the largest in the history of the trade show.
- Nintendo announces it will sell the Super Nintendo system with one controller for US$99.95 in the US, or US$149.95 with two controllers and Super Mario World.
- Sega announces a price drop of the Genesis to US$99.99 with one controller, and the GameGear to US$99.99.
- Turbo Technologies drops the price of the TurboGrafx-16 to US$69.99 or $99.99 including Bonk's Revenge and Keith Courage.
- 1993 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Super Mario Bros. to theaters in the US. The film cost $48 million to make.
- 2003 - In Tokyo, Japan, Sony Electronics vice president Ken Kutaragi unveils the PSX, combining a PlayStation 2 game player with DVD recorder. The PSX includes a broadcast satellite tuner, 120 GB hard drive, Memory Stick slot, and Ethernet and USB ports.
- 2003 - 3DO announces it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, giving the company time to find a buyer for the company.
- 2010 - Disney releases the feature film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to theaters. The movie is based on the Prince of Persia series of computer/videogames, first released in 1987.
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