The BAT is a 7-key hand-sized device from Infogrip, and has been sold since 1985.

An Ethernet adapter card for the IBM PC was released in 1982 and by 1985, 3Com had sold 100, 000.

Mort Weisman, Jordan's father, joined the company in 1985 to lead the company's operational management having sold his book publishing business, Swallow Press.

In the 1985 close season, Lineker was sold to defending league champions Everton for £ 800, 000, and scored 40 goals in 57 games for his new team.

Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $ 20 million.

In 1978 both the helicopters and light trainers were sold and the air arm disappeared, the BO 105 was transferred to the civil register in 1985.

Benetton Formula Ltd. was formed at the end of 1985 when the Toleman and Spirit teams were sold to the Benetton family.

The British government sold its remaining shares in 1985, maintaining a £ 1 Golden Share which allows it veto foreign control of the board or company.

This new conglomerate was evidently not as successful as CBS had expected, and Steinway was sold in 1985, along with classical and church organ maker Rodgers and flute and piccolo maker Gemeinhardt, to a group of Boston-area investors.

* Coktel Vision in Paris, France, founded in 1985, acquired in 1993, sold to Mindscape in 2005.

( This was sold to Cambridgeshire County Council in December 1985 owing to Sinclair's financial troubles.

Although the sponsorship deal ended when Marriott sold the park to Six Flags in 1985, the Standard logo can still be seen on all of the Barney Oldfield Speedway ( now Great America Raceway ) cars.

He has continued to publish hardcover books about baseball history, which have sold well and received admiring reviews ; these books include three editions of The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 1985, 1988, 2001, the last entitled The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

Volkswagen sold Beetle sedans in the US until August 1977 ( the Beetle convertible / Cabriolet was sold until January 1980 ) and in Europe until 1985, with private companies continuing to import cars produced in Mexico after 1985.

Under the Blumes, the company ran into financial difficulties in 1984, and although Gygax managed to have the Blumes removed from the board of directors, they subsequently sold their shares to company manager Lorraine Williams, who succeeded in forcing Gygax out of the company at the end of 1985.

McCombs sold the team to Sidney Shlenker in 1985.

In late December 1984, the 1985 edition reached first place in the category of paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous books, on the New York Times best-seller list, with more than 1, 760, 000 copies sold at the time.

By 1985 In Another Land had sold 120, 000 copies in the USA alone, compared with average sales of less than ten thousand for other gospel albums,

For example in 1985 SMC sold ARCNET cards for around whilst an Ungermann-Bass Ethernet card plus transceiver could cost.

In 1985, the company produced the first computer of its own design, the " Turbo PC ", which sold for $ 795.

In 1985 Holt United left their ground at Jubilee Road, which was sold to finance the new Sports Centre complex on Kelling Road.

The Viewstar converter was an immediate success, the millionth converter being sold on March 21, 1985, with 1. 6 million sold by 1989.

* 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

Unguarded ( 1985 ) surprised some fans for its very mainstream sound ( and Grant's leopard-print jacket, in four poses for four different covers ).

In 1985 Borland acquired Analytica and its Reflex database product.

The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.

By 1985, construction was completed and the World Financial Center saw its first tenants.

In 1985, the U. S. began its growing trade deficit with China.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

In 1985, the TRNC adopted a constitution and held its first elections.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

The first negotiated cease-fire with the M-19 ended when the guerrillas resumed fighting in 1985, claiming that the cease-fire had not been fully respected by official security forces, saying that several of its members had suffered threats and assaults, and also questioning the government's real willingness to implement any accords.

The first artist to sell a million copies on CD was Dire Straits, with its 1985 album Brothers in Arms.

But the club's finances were still far from secure, and they were forced to leave the Valley just after the start of the 1985 – 86 season after its safety was criticised by Football League officials.

The Addicks nickname never went away and was revived by fans after the club lost its Valley home in 1985 and went into exile at Crystal Palace.

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

Since its premiere in 1985, EastEnders has had a large impact on British popular culture.

But while on its mission, the submarine is destroyed by Godzilla ; Terasawa learns that a Russian nuclear submarine sank in the same region Godzillasaurus was teleported to, giving off enough radiation to create the same Godzilla who destroyed Tokyo in 1985 and battled Biollante in 1990.