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Mars Pathfinder launched on December 4, 1996, from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket, carrying a lander and the small rover Sojourner. Between them the two vehicles flew four instruments, one of them a spectrometer mounted on the rover itself.
In February 1996 IBM's Deep Blue played reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in Philadelphia, winning game one before Kasparov took the match 4–2.
On August 2, 1993, Apple shipped the Newton MessagePad, the first product built on its Newton technology and the company's first handheld computing device. Its troubled launch contributed to John Sculley's replacement as CEO by Michael Spindler.
In June 1993, Apple's Personal Interactive Electronics division signed an agreement with ParaGraph International to use ParaGraph's cursive handwriting recognition technology in the Newton family, with further development planned at ParaGraph's Sunnyvale facility.
