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What happened in history on this day: June 30?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1983 - Texas Instruments terminates 750 jobs in TI 99/4A manufacturing plants.
- 1985 - Microsoft year-end revenue: US$140 million; profit US$31.2 million.
- 1997 - Shipments of handheld computers in the US during January to June: 1.4 million.
- 1999 - Paramount Pictures releases the film South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut to theaters in the USA and Canada.
- A personal computer with PC keyboard and mouse is used to access the Internet.
- When a holographic display is encountering difficulties, a man kicks the unit and says "F'ing Windows 98!". He calls in Bill Gates and says "You told us Windows 98 would be faster, and more efficient, with better access to the Internet!" Bill Gates tries to argue that it is, but the man shoots him.
- 1999 - Via Technology of Taiwan and National Semiconductor of California announce that Via will buy National's Cyrix division.
- 1999 - Retail software sales revenue for the past six months: 23% Microsoft products.
- 1999 - Retail operating system unit sales for the past six months: 77% Microsoft products.
- 1999 - Retail office suite unit sales for the past six months: 84% Microsoft products.
- 2001 - Macao, China, issues three postage stamps depicting a handheld computer, a computer, and linked computers.
- 2002 - U.S. consulting firm Gartner reports that approximately one billion personal computers have been shipped worldwide since the mid-1970s. The billionth PC was likely shipped in April.
- 2004 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects the appeal of the state of Massachusetts and two industry trade groups, opposed to the antitrust settlement of the Department of Justice with Microsoft.
- 2007 - To date, Microsoft has sold over 60 million licenses to Windows Vista.
- 2008 - Last day of Microsoft making Windows XP available to PC makers.
- 2009 - Microsoft discontinues its Microsoft Money software.
- 2009 - Costa Rica issues a postage stamp for the 60th anniversary of the Costa Rican Electrical Institute, depicting a laptop computer.
Video Game history:
- 1982 - Video game machines are in about 8 million US homes.
- 1983 - Mattel announces the termination of 260 office jobs, to reduce overhead costs.
- 1984 - In Tokyo, Japan, the top three Track & Field video game players from the US play against the top three Japanese players, over two days. The world champion Gold Medalist is John Britt of Riverside, California.
- 1987 - Sega releases the OutRun video game for the Sega Mark III system in Japan.
- 1995 - The video game Arc the Lad is released for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 1998 - Take 2 Interactive releases the Grand Theft Auto video game for the PlayStation.
- 2000 - Rare releases the Perfect Dark video game for the Nintendo 64 in the UK and Europe.
- 2002 - Microsoft reports worldwide sales of the Xbox to date as 4 million. Unit sales of video games worldwide for the Xbox are about 20 million.
- 2003 - Activision sues Viacom, claiming that its ten-year exclusive deal to produce Star Trek video games is losing value due to Viacom's neglect of the franchise.
- 2003 - Total sales of video game hardware and software in the US during January-June: US$3.5 billion.
- 2004 - Total sales of video game hardware and software in the US during January-June: US$3.4 billion.
- 2007 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 business loses US$1.9 billion for the fiscal year.
- 2007 - To date, shipments of current generation video game systems in the USA: Xbox 360 5.6 million, Nintendo Wii 2.8 million, PlayStation 3 1.4 million.
- 2017 - Activision releases the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy video game for the PlayStation 4 in the USA.
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