What happened to Paul Allen? Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1982. A year later, he resigned as Microsoft's executive vice president, but stayed on the board of directors. Three years later, Microsoft went public and Allen became filthy rich. Today, he enjoys his wealth, buying sports teams and airplanes and seeding technology start-ups (he was the major early investor in CNET).
	What happened to Steve Wozniak? In early 1981, Wozniak suffered partial amnesia from a plane crash and stayed away from Apple for two years. Today, "The Woz" teaches computers at Los Gatos, California schools. He's on the board of a Silicon Valley start-up and serves as an Apple adviser.
	What happened to Bill Fernandez? Fernandez was Apple's fourth employee; he worked on Apple I and II and early Macintoshes. Today, he's a user interface architect at Documentum in Pleasanton, California.

1969
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, two schoolkids from Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington, sign up to bug-test software on PDP-10 minicomputers.

1970
Intel creates the first computer dynamic RAM chip, calling it the 1103.

1971
Steve Wozniak starts on the track that will lead to the creation of Apple Computer. He and pal Bill Fernandez build the Cream Soda Computer, which interprets input from flipped switches and responds by flashing lights.

Intel markets its first central processing unit (CPU): the 4-bit, 108-kHz 4004. This chip would need to become 2,000 times faster before it could run Office 97 comfortably.

1972
Gates and Allen decide to form a company called Traf-O-Data. They develop a computer system for recording automobile traffic flow on a highway.

Intel markets an 8-bit CPU, the 8008, able to use a stunning 16K of RAM. That's about one thousandth of the recommended system requirement for Windows 98.

Brian Eno plays synthesizer on Roxy Music's single "Virginia Plain." After another 23 years of developing the ambient music genre, he reaches the pinnacle of his career: a commission to compose a piece of music that is "inspiring, emotional, optimistic, and sentimental," and only three seconds long. The result--Microsoft Sound.wav--is better known as the Windows 95 start-up sound.