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.
Steve Jobs. Co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. Founded: 1976. We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.-Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs' vision of a computer for the rest of us sparked the PC revolution and made Apple an icon of American business.