Basic/Four is a variety of Business Basic which originally ran on computers of the same name introduced in 1971. The company that produced the system, Management Assistance, Inc., was later known as Basic/Four Corporation , MAI Basic Four, Inc. , and MAI Basic Four Information Systems .
49-527: Basic/Four Corporation was created as a subsidiary of Management Assistance, Inc. in Irvine, California . Basic/Four sold small business minicomputers that were assembled from Microdata Corporation CPUs. MAI Basic Four Business Basic was one of the first commercially available business BASIC interpreters . MAI Basic Four (the company) originally sold minicomputers , but later offered superminicomputers and microcomputers . The computers ran an operating system with
98-571: A San Francisco commission house on Front Street, operated by a relative, John Lyons. The business was renamed "Irvine & Co., wholesale produce and grocery merchants". He began investing his profits in income-producing San Francisco real estate and soon became a wealthy man. Irvine also became a silent partner in the sheep-raising venture Flint, Bixby & Company of brothers Thomas and Benjamin Flint, and their cousin Llewellyn Bixby . The purchase of
147-603: A Spanish explorer, came to the area in 1769, which led to the establishment of forts, missions and cattle herds. The King of Spain parceled out land for missions and private use. After Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican Congress passed the Mexican secularization act of 1833 which secularized the missions and resulted in the Mexican government assuming control of the lands of said missions. It began distributing
196-553: A major street which now stretches from Newport Beach to the city of Orange, was named in honor of this event. David Sills , then a young Boy Scout from Peoria, Illinois , was among the attendees at the 1953 Jamboree. Sills came back to Irvine as an adult and went on to serve four terms as the city's mayor. Myford Irvine died in 1959. The same year, the University of California asked the Irvine Company for 1,000 acres (4 km ) for
245-411: A male householder with no wife present. There were 3,218 (4.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 463 (0.6%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 18,475 households (23.4%) were made up of individuals, and 4,146 (5.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61. There were 51,453 families (65.1% of all households); the average family size
294-637: A memorial to U.S. soldiers who died in the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan , and the first memorial in the United States built before the wars ended. Other parks include: Irvine is a charter city , operating under a council–manager form of government. The City Council consists of the mayor and four City Council members. The Mayor serves a two-year term and Council members serve four-year terms. The city has
343-507: A new airport at El Toro. The Orange County Great Park was developed there. Irvine borders Tustin to the north, Santa Ana to the northwest, Lake Forest to the east and southeast, Laguna Hills and Laguna Woods to the south, Costa Mesa to the west, and Newport Beach to the southwest. Irvine also shares a small border with Orange to the north on open lands by the SR 261 . San Diego Creek , which flows northwest into Upper Newport Bay ,
392-443: A new university campus. The Irvine Company sold the requested land for $ 1 and later the state purchased an additional 500 acres (2.0 km ). William Pereira , the university's consulting architect, and the Irvine Company planners drew up master plans for a city of 50,000 people surrounding the new university. The plan called for industrial, residential and recreational areas, commercial centers and greenbelts. The new community
441-452: A population of 212,375. The population density was 3,195.8 inhabitants per square mile (1,233.9/km ). The racial makeup of Irvine was 107,215 (50.5%) White , 3,718 (1.8%) African American , 355 (0.2%) Native American , 83,176 (39.2%) Asian , 334 (0.2%) Pacific Islander , 5,867 (2.8%) from other races , and 11,710 (5.5%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 19,621 persons (9.2%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 45.1% of
490-399: A substantial Chinese collection. Katie Wheeler was the granddaughter of James Irvine, and the library is a replica of the house owned by Irvine in which she grew up. Additionally, most UCI Libraries are open to the public. Irvine is home to USA Water Polo , the national governing body of the sport of water polo . Irvine is home to Orange County SC , a professional soccer team who
539-698: A two-term limit for elected officials. Elections are held every two years, on even-numbered years. Before 2024, two Council members and the Mayor's seat were up for consideration in each election. The City Council appoints the City Manager, who functions as the chief administrator of the city. The City Council sets the policies for the city, and the City Manager is responsible for implementing the policies. The City Council appoints volunteers that serve on various advisory boards, commissions and committees. James Irvine (landowner) The Irvine family of Southern California
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#1732879985328588-523: Is a master-planned city in central Orange County, California , United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area . The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971. The 66-square-mile (170 km ) city had a population of 307,670 at the 2020 census . As of 2023, it is the second most populous city in Orange County, fifth most in
637-627: Is a major issue in Irvine and Orange County, as the city council faces pressure to approve future income-subsidized housing projects to meet the demands of working-class citizens. Irvine's tourism information is coordinated through the Destination Irvine program run by the Chamber of Commerce. The program provides information on Irvine as a place to vacation and as a destination for meetings, events and other business initiatives. Irvine has been rated one of
686-522: Is a member of the USL Championship . The team plays its home matches at Championship Soccer Stadium , located inside Great Park . Community parks in Irvine have public facilities located on each site, and neighborhood parks provide open space and some recreational amenities within the various villages of Irvine. Northwood Community Park features the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial ,
735-510: Is a prominent Californian family of real estate developers. Through the Irvine Company , the family played an important role in the development of Orange County . The city of Irvine and the University of California, Irvine take their name from the family. James Irvine (1827–1886) was born in County Down , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on December 27, 1827, the second to
784-508: Is buried in Colma, California . James Harvey Irvine, Sr. (1867–1947), son of James Irvine I and Henrietta Maria (Nettie) Rice, was born October 16, 1867, in San Francisco. He was the grandson of Harvey Rice . James II's mother died when he was seven years old, and his father died when he was about eighteen. Between the time of James Irvine I's death in 1886 and James Irvine II's inheritance of
833-753: Is named after him. He died of a heart attack on August 24, 1947 while on a fishing trip in Montana at the Flying D Ranch with Irvine Company manager William Bradford Hellis and real estate broker Walter S. Tubach. James Harvey Irvine, Jr. (1894–1935) was groomed since a young man to take over the Ranch. He married Madeline Agassiz in 1914, but they were divorced in 1928. He married Athalie Richardson (1903–1993) in 1929, and they had one daughter, Athalie Anita "Joan" Irvine (1933–2019 ). When James Irvine III died of tuberculosis in 1935, James II set up The James Irvine Foundation ,
882-473: Is the primary watercourse draining the city. Its largest tributary is Peters Canyon Wash . Most of Irvine is in a broad, flat valley between Loma Ridge in the north and San Joaquin Hills in the south. In the extreme northern and southern areas, however, are several hills, plateaus and canyons. Los Angeles architect William Pereira and Irvine Company employee Raymond Watson designed Irvine's layout beginning in
931-626: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake , when he relocated to the Irvine Ranch. He was a member of the Bohemian Club , and kept a residence in San Francisco, at 2421 Pierce Street. He established the James Irvine Foundation in 1937, an entity dedicated to the "general well-being of the citizens and residents of the state of California." James II owned nearly a third of the land in present-day Orange County . The city of Irvine (formerly Myford)
980-517: The Santa Fe Railroad extended its line to Fallbrook Junction, north of San Diego , and named a station along the way after James Irvine. The town that formed around this station was named Myford, after Irvine's son, because a post office in Calaveras County already bore the family name. The town was renamed Irvine in 1914. By 1918, 60,000 acres (240 km ) of lima beans were grown on
1029-549: The "pendant"). Residential areas are now bordered by two commercial districts, the Irvine Business Complex to the west (part of the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city ) and Irvine Spectrum to the east. All streets have landscaping allowances. Rights-of-way for powerlines also serve as bicycle corridors, parks, and greenbelts to tie together ecological preserves. The city irrigates
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#17328799853281078-573: The 1980s and later may be levied a Mello-Roos special tax, which came about in the post- Proposition 13 era. Each of the villages was initially planned to have a distinct architectural theme. Business and commercial areas Late spring and early summer in Irvine is subject to the June Gloom phenomenon widespread in southern California, with overcast mornings and occasional drizzle. Late summer and autumn are warm and mostly dry, with occasional bouts of humid weather extending from Pacific hurricanes off
1127-624: The 48,800-acre (197 km ) Rancho San Joaquin in 1864 and the 47,200-acre (191 km ) Rancho Lomas de Santiago in 1866 marked the beginning of their operations in Southern California. In 1867, Irvine married Henrietta Maria (Nettie) Rice, the daughter of prominent Cleveland, Ohio , educator, writer, poet, and Ohio State Senator Harvey Rice , who was a direct descendant of early Massachusetts Bay Colony settler Edmund Rice . Nettie died in 1874, and Irvine married Margaret Byrne in 1880. He died of Bright's disease on March 15, 1886, and
1176-620: The BASIC interpreter integrated. The BASIC interpreter was written in TREE-META . In 1985, Wall Street financier Bennett S. LeBow purchased the company after it had experienced significant operating financial losses. In 1988, LeBow used the company as a platform for an unsuccessful attempted hostile takeover of much larger Prime Computer . In the mid-1980s, the company released accounting software for third-party microcomputers. In 1988, it released its own 80286 -based workstation. The Basic4 system
1225-522: The Great Drought. In 1866, Irvine, Flint and Bixby acquired 47,000-acre (190 km ) Rancho Lomas de Santiago for $ 7,000. After the Mexican-American War the land of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana fell prey to tangled titles. In 1868, the ranch was divided among three claimants as part of a lawsuit: Flint, Bixby and Irvine. The ranches were devoted to sheep grazing. However, in 1870, tenant farming
1274-661: The Greater Los Angeles region, and 63rd most in the United States . A number of corporations, particularly in the technology and semiconductor sectors, have their national or international headquarters in Irvine. Irvine is also home to several higher-education institutions including the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Concordia University , Irvine Valley College , and campuses of California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), University of La Verne , and Pepperdine University . The Gabrieleño indigenous group inhabited Irvine about 2,000 years ago. Gaspar de Portolà ,
1323-580: The Irvine Global Village Festival to celebrate the diversity among the citizens of Irvine and Orange County. The festival consists of exhibits from local merchants, entertainment from diverse cultures, and sampling of foods from various regions of the world. The event is held at the Orange County Great Park . The Irvine Community Television (ICTV) produces and broadcasts television programs on news, sports, arts, culture, safety for
1372-502: The Irvine Ranch. Two Marine Corps facilities, MCAS El Toro and MCAS Tustin , were built during World War II on ranch land sold to the government. James Irvine II died in 1947 at the age of 80. His son, Myford, assumed the presidency of the Irvine Company. He began opening small sections of the Irvine Ranch to urban development. The Irvine Ranch played host to the Boy Scouts of America 's 1953 National Scout Jamboree . Jamboree Road ,
1421-500: The Irvine community. The motto of ICTV is "For You, About You". ICTV airs on Cox Communications channel 30 and online. Irvine has three public libraries: Heritage Park Regional Library, University Park Library, and Katie Wheeler Library. The Heritage Library serves as the regional reference library for Central Orange County and has a strong business and art focus while the University Park Library has 95,745 books, including
1470-585: The Pacific Ocean. It can occasionally snow in the Santa Ana Mountains to the northeast of Irvine. Snow within the lower-lying parts of Irvine is very rare, but the area received three inches of snow in January 1949. A tornado touched down in Irvine in 1991, an event that happens in Orange County more generally approximately once every five years. The 2010 United States Census reported that Irvine had
1519-535: The Southern California real estate holdings upon his twenty-fifth birthday in 1892, the properties were supervised by James Irvine I's brother, George Irvine. James II bought out Flint and the other partners, and formed the Irvine Company . He married Frances Anita Plum in 1892, and they had three children, James Harvey "Jase" Irvine Jr. (1894–1935), Katharine Helena Irvine (1894–1920) and Myford Plum Irvine (1898–1959). In 1931, James II married Mrs. Kathryn Brown White, who died in 1950. James II lived in San Francisco until
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1568-425: The age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families. 22.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 persons and the average family size was 3.17. In the city, the population was spread out, with 23.5% under
1617-437: The age of 18, 14.4% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males. According to 2007 Census Bureau estimates, the median income for a household in the city was $ 98,923, and the median income for a family was $ 111,455; these numbers make Irvine
1666-540: The city. The population density was 3,098.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,196.1/km ), as of the census. There were 53,711 housing units at an average density of 1,163.0 per square mile (449.0/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 61.1% White , 7.4% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, 1.5% Black or African American , 0.2% Native American , 29.8% Asian , 1.1% Pacific Islander , 2.5% from other races , and 4.8% from two or more races. There were 51,199 households, out of which 36.0% had children under
1715-645: The greenery with reclaimed water. The homeowners' associations which govern some village neighborhoods exercise varying degrees of control on the appearances of homes. In more restrictive areas, houses' roofing, paint colors, and landscaping are regulated. Older parts of the Village of Northwood that were developed beginning in the early 1970s independently of the Irvine Company and does not have homeowners' associations.The more tightly regulated villages generally offer more amenities, such as members-only swimming pools, tennis courts and parks. Homeowners in villages developed in
1764-527: The land to Mexican citizens who applied for grants. Three large Spanish/Mexican land grants , also known as ranchos, made up the land that later became the Irvine Ranch: Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana , Rancho San Joaquin and Rancho Lomas de Santiago . In 1864, Jose Andres Sepulveda , owner of Rancho San Joaquin, sold 50,000 acres (200 km ) to Benjamin and Thomas Flint, Llewellyn Bixby and James Irvine for $ 18,000 to resolve debts due to
1813-505: The late 1950s, which is nominally divided into townships called "villages", separated by six-lane arterial roads . Each township contains houses of similar design, along with commercial centers, religious institutions, and schools. Commercial districts are checker-boarded in a periphery around the central townships. Only automobile transportation was planned for, with other forms of transportation ignored, resulting in Irvine becoming extremely car dependent today. Pereira originally envisioned
1862-473: The one envisioned by the Pereira plan. By January 1999, Irvine had a population of 134,000 and a total area of 43 square miles (111 km ). In late 2003, after a ten-year-long legal battle, Irvine annexed the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station . This added 7.3 square miles (19 km ) of land to the city and blocked an initiative championed by Newport Beach residents to replace John Wayne Airport with
1911-461: The population. The census reported that 205,819 people (96.9% of the population) lived in households, 5,968 (2.8%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 588 (0.3%) were institutionalized. There were 78,978 households, out of which 26,693 (33.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 40,930 (51.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 7,545 (9.6%) had a female householder with no husband present, 2,978 (3.8%) had
1960-522: The seventh richest city in the US, among cities with population 65,000 or higher. 9.1% of the population and 5.0% of families were below the poverty line . Of the total population, 6.1% of those under the age of 18 and 5.6% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. In 2006, the median gross rent paid for housing was $ 1,660 a month. This was the highest of any place in the United States of more than 100,000 people. The skyrocketing high cost of housing
2009-622: The top cities for start-up businesses and its strong, fast-growing economy helped place Orange County as one of the top ten fastest growing job markets. Irvine is also used as a location for film projects. The city government grants free or low-cost filming permits and offers location information to prospective productions. The following companies are headquartered in Irvine: The following international companies have their North American headquarters in Irvine: Every October, Irvine hosts
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2058-429: The university campus at the northern end of the Irvine Ranch. When the Irvine Company refused to relinquish valuable farmland in the flat central region of the ranch for this plan, the university site was moved to the base of the southern coastal hills . The city layout was based on the shape of a necklace (with the villages strung along two parallel main streets, which terminate at University of California, Irvine (UCI),
2107-533: The west coast of Mexico. Winters are mild, with most winters having no frost, and can be hot and dry when the Santa Ana winds blow. Irvine has a Mediterranean climate wherein precipitation occurs predominantly during the winter months. Because Irvine is close to the coast, different parts of Irvine have different microclimates ; for instance, the June Gloom effect is stronger in the southern parts of Irvine, closer to
2156-608: The youngest of nine children. When Ireland's potato crop failed in 1845, James Irvine and his younger brother William were among those who left for the United States . The family name is Scottish, meaning that James would have been an Ulster Scot , or Scots-Irish . Irvine worked for two years in New York City . In 1848 Irvine went to join the California Gold Rush as a merchant and miner. In 1854, he purchased an interest in
2205-416: Was 2.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.2%. 109,846 people (51.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 95,973 people (45.2%) lived in rental housing units. During 2009–2013, Irvine had a median household income of $ 90,585, with 12.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line. The census of 2000 found there were 143,072 people, 51,199 households, and 34,354 families in
2254-632: Was 3.13. The age distribution of the population was as follows: 45,675 people (21.5%) under the age of 18, 30,384 people (14.3%) aged 18 to 24, 66,670 people (31.4%) aged 25 to 44, 51,185 people (24.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 18,461 people (8.7%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.4 males. There were 83,899 housing units at an average density of 1,262.5 per square mile (487.5/km ), of which 39,646 (50.2%) were owner-occupied, and 39,332 (49.8%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate
2303-513: Was permitted. In 1878, James Irvine acquired his partners' interests for $ 150,000 ($ 4,735,862 in 2023 dollars ). His 110,000 acres (450 km ) stretched 23 miles (37 km) from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana River . James Irvine died in 1886. The ranch was inherited by his son, James Irvine II , who incorporated it into the Irvine Company . James Irvine II shifted the ranch operations to field crops, olive and citrus crops. In 1888,
2352-410: Was to be named Irvine; the old agricultural town of Irvine, where the railroad station and post office were located, was renamed East Irvine . The first phases of the villages of Turtle Rock, University Park, Westpark (then called Culverdale), El Camino Real, and Walnut were completed by 1970. On December 28, 1971, the residents of these communities voted to incorporate a substantially larger city than
2401-484: Was utilized by many small banks and credit unions. In 1990, the company changed its name to MAI Systems Corporation and changed its business to be a system integrator instead of a combined hardware and software manufacturer, reselling third-party computers but installing their own customer-specific software system. MAI Systems Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Softbrands Inc. in 2006. Irvine, California Irvine ( / ˈ ɜːr v aɪ n / )
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