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1994 – The Sega Saturn is released featuring 2 28.6 MHz processors running 32 bit. It had 2 video display processors, QSound surround and 2 MB of memory, with 1.5MB of video memory. It went for 44,800 Yen, or $450.

2005 – Microsoft launches the XBOX360. It contained a IBM PowerPC with 3 cores at 3.2 GHz a core. It contained a 500 MHz ATI card and 512 MB of RAM. There were several versions starting at $249 and going up to $399. The limited Halo 3 version had a specially crafted case.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Bill Gates and John Sculley sign a licensing agreement
• Movies Back to the Future II, Independence Day and Revenge of the Nerds were released
• Verizon employees were fired for looking at Barak Obama’s phone records

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Tonights show was another great one! We had a lot of friends show up and a bunch of new ones! Brokenshovel was getting a new motherboard, so we talked about the i7 that just came out. We also talked about Apple’s cores and AMD’s struggles.

Someone came on the show concerned they were hacked. We talked about what an IP address does and what the person should do to be more secure.

Finally, in hour #2 we found out that Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo! has decided to step down. We talked about who the successor should be. Larry Ellison from Oracle was suggested. I think the best person for the role is Martin Sargent. He has a lot of contacts and can make Yugo a young company again.

All this and a lot more on the LIVE Show.

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3G iPhone Announcement on June 9

Ubuntu 8.04 Released

Feature: Getting XP after the cut-off date:

Change. Some love to do it, others would like to stay where they are. Sometimes change is needed – newer, faster, more powerful to take over old and un-updatable. Still, within time change happens like it always does in life. Its really a question of whether you want to change with it, or stick with the same.

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