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From the vault This day in tech history, November 9
- 1965
One relay blacks out the Northeast
A protective relay at the Sir Adam Beck No. 2 station in Ontario was set too low for the load on its lines. When it tripped, the overload cascaded until 30 million people in Canada and the northeastern US were in the dark.
- 2004
Mozilla ships Firefox 1.0
The Mozilla Foundation released it free for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, with tabbed browsing and a built-in pop-up blocker, after more than eight million people had downloaded the preview.
- 2004
Video Game History: Halo 2 comes out
Microsoft said it sold 2.38 million copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours, about $125 million at the register.
Then and now
1984: An Apple Macintosh with 128K of memory: $2,495. Today: a Mac mini with 16 GB starts at $899.
