In 1970 – The Chang Zheng-1 rocket launched, carrying the first Chinese satellite, the Dong Fang Hong-1.
In 1984 – At a meeting called “Apple II Forever“, Apple introduced the portable Apple IIc. The machine came with 128 kilobytes of RAM and a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive.
In 1990 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launched with the Hubble Space Telescope on board. The following day, Hubble was released into space.
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Perhaps many have already noticed this but the //c was introduced in 1984, not 1981. The page you reference does mention 1981 when first discussion of a project to create the //c occurred. Perhaps that is how the year ended up incorrect.
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Hey thanks Jeremy! You’re the first to point out the typo. Kind of embarrassing but now fixed! Thanks for the note.