The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

* On the Fastrack-About the misadventures at Fastrack, Inc., On the Fastrack has been distributed by King Features Syndicate since 1984.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

In July 1984 he bought the consumer side of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications which allowed him to strike back and release the Atari ST earlier in 1985 for about $ 800.

Aeroplan began in 1984 as Air Canada ’ s frequent flier program, but since 2008 has been owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and operates as a more widely based coalition program.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

MIPS Computer Systems Inc. was founded in 1984 by a group of researchers from Stanford University that included John L. Hennessy, as a vendor of microprocessor chips.

* 1984: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. co-founded by Dr. John Hennessy, Skip Stritter, and Dr. John Moussouris

* Wolfram Saenger, Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure, 1984, Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Dalbar Inc., a market research company, found that during the 20 years from 1984 to 2004, the average stock fund investor earned returns of only 3. 7 % per year, while the S & P 500 returned 13. 2 %.

* 1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. ( d. 1984 )

The illustration — humorously depicting New Yorkers ' self-image of their place in the world, or perhaps outsiders ' view of New Yorkers ' self-image — inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 film Moscow on the Hudson ; that movie poster led to a lawsuit, Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 663 F. Supp.

The software was licensed from 3rd party developers Joseph Katz and Mark Barton ( later, SoftVoice, Inc .) and was featured during the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh computer.

In 1984, American Stores Company, which consisted of Alpha Beta food stores in the west, Acme Markets in the east and Skaggs Drug Centers in the Rocky Mountain, southwestern, and northwestern states, acquired The Jewel Companies Inc.

Hawthorn, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984.

* Chevron U. S. A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 ( 1984 ), which gave administrative agencies broad discretion to interpret statute to make policy changes if Congressional intent was unclear.

Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984.

Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984.

In July 1984, Tramel Technology bought the Consumer Division of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications.

TSR, Inc. released the Dragonlance saga in 1984 after two years of development, making TSR the number one publisher of fantasy and science fiction novels in the USA.

The term " software radio " was coined in 1984 by a team at the Garland Texas Division of E-Systems Inc. ( now Raytheon ).

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984.

In 1984, Associated Electrics, Inc. of Costa Mesa, California introduced the RC10 off-road electric racer ; this model was a departure from ' Ass Electrics ' regular line of nitromethane-powered on-road race cars.

* Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., the 1984 debut album by Country singer Dwight Yoakam and its eponymous title song

* Solomon, R. C., Morality and the Good Life: An Introduction to Ethics Through Classical Sources, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984.

* Edwards, Paul M., " RLDS Priesthood: Structure and Process ", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 ( 3 ) ( 1984 ) p. 6.

* 1984 – John Gallagher, Jr., American actor

* 1914 – Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter, founded WWE ( d. 1984 )

Cagney Jr. died from a heart attack on January 27, 1984 in Washington, D. C., two years before his adoptive father's death.

* Nelson, Harold D., ed., ( September 1984 ).

* Gerald Graff ( 1973 ) The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough, TriQuarterly, 26 ( Winter, 1973 ) 383 – 417 ; rept in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction Malcolm Bradbury, ed., ( London: Fontana, 1977 ); reprinted in Proza Nowa Amerykanska, ed., Szice Krytyczne ( Warsaw, Poland, 1984 ); reprinted in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology, Manfred Putz and Peter Freese, eds., ( Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984 ), 58 – 81.

Yeovil, UK: Winchmore Publishing Services Ltd., 1984, ISBN 0-85429-423-6.

They were the first group in the genre to have a gold album ( Run – D. M. C., 1984 ) and be nominated for a Grammy Award.

Westview Press, Boulder, Co., 1984 ), ISBN 0-86531-792-5

* Steiner, P., Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics, 1984

* Ravenstein, Charles, A., Air Force Combat Wings 1947 – 1977, Office of Air Force History, USAF, 1984.

* El-Wakil, M., M. ( 1984 ).

In 1984, under LucasFilm Computer Group, John Lasseter's first computer animated short, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premiered at SIGGRAPH.

( It has been observed Bernie Ecclestone had purchased a job-lot of DFVs in 1984, with no obvious use for them at the time ).

In 1984, Fayed and his brothers purchased a 30 percent stake in House of Fraser, a group that included the famous London store Harrods, from Roland ' Tiny ' Rowland, the head of Lonrho.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

As another tribute to his lasting legacy, the same fleet of cars Edison deployed on the Lackawanna in 1931 served commuters until their retirement in 1984, when some of them were purchased by the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In late 2007, she also purchased the rights to her 1984 E. P.

Built on land that the Most Holy Mother of God Serbian Association purchased in 1977, New Gračanica Church and the main building on its grounds dedicated to the feast of the " Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God " were completed and consecrated in 1984.

Massillon's steel era came to an end in 1984 when Republic Steel was purchased by LTV Steel and most of the Massillon operations were sold or shuttered.

The Radio Post began publishing in 1922 and was purchased in 1984 by the Fredericksburg Publishing Company.

Exclusive rights to market Trilog color matrix printers was acquired in 1984, and Trilog was purchased outright in 1985.

Hook also co-owned the Suite Sixteen recording studio formerly Cargo Studios which Hook purchased with Chris Hewitt in 1984.

Ransome Airlines operated Delta Connection flights from March 1, 1984, to June 1, 1986, when it was purchased by Pan Am.

In 1984, Lorimar purchased Karl Video Corporation ( KVC ), also known as Karl Home Video, which was named after its founder, Stuart Karl ( 1953 – 1991 ).

Another expansion of FINA's marketing operations came in 1984, when American Petrofina purchased several thousand service stations from Oklahoma-based Champlin Refining Company following that firm's closing of its Enid, Oklahoma refinery.

As early as the winter of 1984, only a few months after the Mac's introduction, the company purchased a small Mac database developer and moved them to their Glendale development center to work on what would later be known as dBASE Mac.

1983 and 1984 models could be purchased with an optional 94 hp ( 70 kW ) turbocharged engine.

Weston also purchased an interest in Brown Thomas, the upscale Dublin department store, and eventually acquired full ownership in 1984.

In 1984, Save-A-Lot purchased 75 similar format Jewel T stores and two distribution centers from Jewel in Florida and Pennsylvania.

In 1984, the castle was purchased for £ 1 by Margarita Hamilton, who restored the building to its former glory.

Under the administration of Benjamin Cole, the municipality of Mayagüez purchased the Yagüez in 1980 and restored it to its original magnificence in 1984.

Laporte said he purchased his first Macintosh in 1984.

It was purchased in 1984 and was renovated in 1997 and is listed as a " heritage building ".

In 1984, 335 Commonwealth Avenue was purchased for Administration and the Communication Studies department.

A management group, led by Gilbert G. Pollock, purchased Mylstar's pinball assets in October 1984 and continued the manufacture of pinball machines under a new company, Premier Technology.

In 1984, Mayor Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, purchased a new herd as a birthday present for his wife.