|
What happened in history on this day: September 24?
On September 24 in ...
|
Personal Computer history:
- 1981 - In Boston, Massachussettes, IBM announces it has produced a memory chip that can store 288,000 bits.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer shows the "Flying Toasters" screen-saver.
- 1996 - Netscape Communications releases the Navigator Personal Edition 3.0 web broswer, for US$50, and the Navigator Gold Personal Edition 3.0 for US$80.
- 1997 - The US Federal Trade Commission announces it is investigating Intel for alleged practices of illegally withholding CPU sales to PC makers who buy competitor's products.
- 2001 - PC manufacturers begin shipping new computers with Windows XP preloaded.
- 2002 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 1900+ and 2000+ mobile processors. Prices are US$239 and US$345 each in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2007 - The One Laptop Per Child organization launches the Give 1 Get 1 marketing plan. For US$399, a buyer will purchase two XO computers, receiving one in early 2008, with the other being sent to a child in Cambodia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, or Haiti.
- 2007 - Business Week magazines publishes an article on The Best Places to Launch a Career. At number 6 is Microsoft.
Video Game history:
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. An actor's trailer has two video arcade machines, one with dual joysticks, the other with dual trackballs.
- 2000 - Nintendo releases the Pokémon Puzzle League video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2002 - Quote by J. Allard, Microsoft general manager for Xbox: "... narrowband gaming [is] like sucking pizza through a straw.".
- 2002 - Nintendo releases the Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 video game for the Game Boy Advance in the US.
- 2004 - The Cartoon Network airs the TV show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the USA. A Nintendo GameCube appears.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A scene takes place at a video game arcade, "Captain Blip's Zapateria". Some games are Click Clack, Unipede, Remington Steele: The Game, Rocky III vs. Clara Peller, Space-Tac-Toe, Monkey Kong, Polybius, Triangle Wars.
- 2011 - Capcom releases the Dead Rising 2: Off the Record video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
|
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/compvid/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
|