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- Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL goal on Oct. 14. He would
become the NHL's greatest scorer.
- Star Trek: The Movie was released.
- Intel announced its latest CPU. Long before the Pentium and the Pentium II,
Intel was touting the benefits of its latest and greatest microprocessors for
personal computers.
The April 18, 1979 issue of Intelligent Machines Journal announced that
year's cutting-edge chip technology: the 8088. With its 16-bit internal
architecture and the ability to address up to a megabyte of memory, the 8088
promised higher performance than ever before -- while preserving backward
compatibility with the industry-standard 8086.
- St. Catherines, Ontario - Photo editor Chris Haney and sportswriter
Scott Abbott devise the
Trivial Pursuit board game, with a current events
theme; form investor group with John Haney and friend
Ed Werner, and 30 others, including a copyboy from their newspaper; raised $40,000,
rented an office and paid some of their help with shares; first 1,100 sets
cost $75 each to manufacture; sold to retailers for $15 a game; took off at
1983 New York Toy Fair when distributed by US game company Selchow
and Righter; now in 19 different languages.
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