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What happened in history on this day: July 27?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1981 - Microsoft buys all rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products for US$50,000, and the name MS-DOS is adopted. Microsoft agrees to give SCP generous terms for licensing its languages.
- 1989 - Lotus Development ships Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2 for MS-DOS.
- 2003 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. On an island of obsolete robots, one is labeled "SINCLAIR 2K", who is obsolete because it does not have enough memory. This is likely a reference to the Timex/Sinclair 1000 microcomputers of 1982 with 2 kB of RAM.
- 2004 - Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Office 2003, containing bug fixes and stability improvements.
- 2006 - Intel releases the Core 2 Duo E6700 processor. It features dual processing cores, 4 MB shared L2 cache, 2.66 GHz clock speed, 1066 MHz front side bus, 65 nm process. Price is US$530. Code name of the Core 2 Duo during development was Conroe.
- 2006 - Intel releases the Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor. It features dual processing cores, 4 MB shared L2 cache, 2.93 GHz clock speed, 1066 MHz 128-bit front side bus, 65 nm process, 291 million transistors, maximum addressable memory 8 GB. Price is US$999.
- 2006 - Intel releases the Core 2 Duo processor, models E6300, E6400, and E6600. All have 1066 MHz front-side bus and 65 nm traces. Models E6300 and E6400 have 2 MB cache, the E6600 has 4 MB cache. Clock speeds are 1.86 GHz, 2.13 GHz, and 2.4 GHz, respectively. Prices are US$183, US$224, and US$316, respectively. Code name of the Core 2 Duo during development was Conroe.
- 2007 - Intel releases the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 processor, with 4 MB cache and 1066 MHz front-side bus. Price is US$316 in 1000-unit quantities. Model E6700 (2.66 GHz) costs US$530; model X6800 (2.93 GHz) costs US$999.
Video Game history:
- 1990 - Nintendo releases the Dr. Mario video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
- 1990 - NEC releases the Ghouls 'n Ghosts video game for the PC Engine in Japan.
- 1999 - Nintendo releases the Mario Golf 64 video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2004 - Nokia releases the N-Gage QD handheld video game system in the US. It features bottom-mounted slot for MMC game cards, 1.6 x 1.9 inch 176x208 resolution color screen, 8-way game pad, Bluetooth connectivity, 104 MHz ARM processor, Symbian 6.0 operating system, no MP3 player, no radio, no USB port. Weight is 5 ounces; size is 4.7 x 2.7 x 0.9 inches; price is US$199.
- 2005 - Sony makes available PlayStation Portable firmware version 2.0 via Internet download in Japan. New features include Web browser, wireless photo sharing, MPEG4 and AAC media format support.
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