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.

Planning for the Big Dig as a project officially began in 1982, with environmental impact studies starting in 1983.

The force was officially constituted in January 1983, when the various pro-Habré contingents were merged and renamed FANT.

The highest officially recorded temperature was on 26 July 1983 and the lowest was on 12 January 1985.

The migration of the ARPANET to TCP / IP was officially completed on flag day January 1, 1983, when the new protocols were permanently activated.

* 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.

The Green Party has received growing support since it was officially formed in 1983.

In 1983 it was officially named after Telesto of Greek mythology.

In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological Metis, a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ).

By 1983 the band name had officially become Psyche named after the B-Side of Killing Joke's " Wardance " single as well as being chosen for the meaning of the word.

Since 1983, Reform Judaism in the United States of America officially adopted a bilineal policy: one is a Jew if either of one's parents is Jewish, provided that either ( a ) one is raised as a Jew, by Reform standards, or ( b ) one engages in an appropriate act of public identification, formalizing a practice that had been common in Reform synagogues for at least a generation.

The department existed under various titles prior to July 5, 1983, when County Council officially created the County's Emergency Preparedness Division.

By the time military rule ended in 1983 some 1, 500 people had been killed directly by “ death squads ”, and over 9, 000 named people and many more undocumented victims had been “ disappeared ”— kidnapped and murdered secretly — according to the officially appointed National Commission on Disappeared People ( CONADEP ).

Mill Creek was officially incorporated on August 30, 1983.

Although the name was informally proposed soon after the initial 1966 discovery, it was not officially given this name until 1983, when Epimetheus also received its name.

The Soviet Union did not officially admit the existence of Plesetsk Cosmodrome until 1983.

Starting from 1983, the prize was officially awarded during the event.

" Every Breath You Take " is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album Synchronicity, written by Sting and Andy Summers ( but officially credited to Sting only ).

In 1983, three ministers – Dick Matenje, Twaibu Sangala, Aaron Gadama – and Member of Parliament David Chiwanga died mysteriously in what was labelled officially as a " traffic accident ".

The new joint station with British Rail at Blaenau Ffestiniog was officially opened on 30 April 1983 by George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons, who unveiled a plaque that records his visit.

The Air Force base was deactivated in 1970 and it officially remained unoccupied until 1983 when the 105th Airlift Wing ( 105 AW ) and the 213th Engineer Installation Squadron ( 213 EIS ) of the New York Air National Guard took up quarters.

On 25th June 1983 the very first JET plasma was achieved and on 9th April 1984 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened this European fusion experiment.

Operation Condor officially ended with the ousting of the Argentine dictatorship in 1983, although the killings continued for some time after that.

Bauhaus officially broke up ( for the first time ) in July 1983.

After a trial period in selected jurisdictions, it was officially established at the national level in 1983.