It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

As trading became tighter in the petroleum market, and Aston Martin was requiring more time and money, Gauntlett agreed to sell Hays / Pace to the Kuwait Investment Office in September 1983.

( A revised 2-port model was released in 1983, along with a game adapter that allowed gamers to play all 2600 games.

The system had been designed in 1983 through 1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramiel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984.

In 1963, Rowney ( now part of Daler-Rowney Ltd since 1983 ) was the first manufacturer to introduce an artist ’ s acrylic color in Europe, under the brand name Cryla.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political opposition, was assassinated in 1983 at the Manila International Airport ( now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ) upon returning home from exile.

The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

A. Panitz's patent, was developed by Mike Miller starting in 1983 and culminated with the first prototype in 1986.

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

The first BBS using the Apple Macintosh platform was the Austin Arts BBS, which was a dial-up system developed by Bill Hood of the School of Screenprinting in 1983.

The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

Factional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983.

It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.

Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that, " Philippe Kahn, who founded the company in 1983 and headed it until 1994, called the deal a ' great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

In 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared an independent state called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ), an action opposed by the United Nations Security Council.

In 1983, Tramiel decided to focus on market share and cut the price of the VIC-20 and C64 dramatically, starting what would be called the " home computer war.

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

A U. S .- Caribbean force invaded Grenada on October 25, 1983 in an action called Operation Urgent Fury, and swiftly defeated the Grenadan forces and their Cuban allies.

In 1983 he started hosting a public television program on the side, called Computer Chronicles, that followed trends in personal computing.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

A version of the IBM PC called the 3270 PC, released in October 1983, included 3270 terminal emulation.

In 1983, he won the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture.

In 1983 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture.

A fifth game, a children's title called Magic Carousel, was shelved, and in August 1983 the Intellivoice system was quietly phased out.

In 1983, a video game called Keystone Kapers was released for the Atari 2600, 5200, and later Colecovision.

In 1983 L. Ron Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an international information infiltration and theft project called " Operation Snow White ".

A Ruby-Spears-produced cartoon called Mister T premiered in 1983 on NBC.

On 3 February 1983, Fraser called a double dissolution election for 5 March, several months before it was due.

* In 1983 Robert Anton Wilson published a non-fiction book called Prometheus Rising ( which was followed by Quantum Psychology )

During its history the PNGDF has sent 400 troops to assist the Vanuatu government put down a secessionist revolt in 1980 and was called out in aid to the civil power in Port Moresby in 1983.

In 1983, a year before Limbaugh debuted as a political talk-show host, anarchist Bob Black wrote an essay called " Feminism as Fascism ".

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt's " natural role " among Arab countries.

Gaming magazine White Dwarf ran a comic strip called The Travellers by Mark Harrison from 1983 to 1986.

* In 1983, Czech Surrealist Jan Švankmajer directed a 15-minute short film called The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, based on this story and the short story " A Torture by Hope " by Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam.

On November 7, 1983, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.