A promise that an unaccepted offer will be renewed in the future. This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain check entitling them to future admission for a game that was postponed or ended early owing to bad weather.
Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. The Apple I kits were computers single handedly designed and hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club.
What began as a hobby for two engineers tinkering with computers in their garage has grown into Apple Computer, a multibillion dollar company that has revolutionized the way people communicate. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple on a shoestring and went on to become American icons.