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What happened in history on this day: July 28?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1981 - IBM's General Systems Division introduces its first desktop computer, the System 23 Datamaster. It uses a 16-bit 8086, and is a dedicated data processing machine. Price is US$9830.
- 1989 - At the Chicago Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, the AmiEXPO trade show is held, over three days. 10,437 people attend.
- 1995 - Columbia Pictures releases the film The Net to theaters in the USA.
- The game Wolfenstein 3D is played/debugged on a Macintosh computer.
- Another computer shows the Windows operating system running.
- Several types of Apple Macintosh computers are used throughout the film.
- 1997 - National Semiconductor announces an agreement to acquire Cyrix, for US$550 million in stock.
- 2005 - Microsoft reports it has sold 100,000 copies of Windows XP Starter Edition to date.
- 2006 - Macao issues a postage stamp depicting a personal computer keyboard and mouse.
Video Game history:
- 1995 - Columbia Pictures releases the film The Net to theaters in the USA. A scene takes place in an amusement park, showing several arcade video games.
- 2003 - Nintendo releases the Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2011 - Nintendo announces it is cutting the price of the Nintendo 3DS in the US from US$249.99 to US$169.99.
- 2017 - Nintendo releases the Hey! Pikmin video game for the Nintendo 3DS in the USA.
- 2017 - Nintendo launches the Nintendo 2DS XL handheld video game system in the USA. price is US$149.
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