1969: 4 nodes on ARPAnet (UCLA, SRI, UCSB, & U. of Utah)

1968: Demonstrating the Wooden Mouse

1968: Douglas Engelbart drives the "Mother of All Demos"

1968: Intel formed by Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, & Andy Grove

1980: Convinces IBM it has an operating system

1980: Apple III (2 MHz CPU, 128 kb RAM, built-in 5.25" floppy)

1976: Steve Wozniak finishes the Apple I (1 MHz MOStek 6502 CPU, 4 kb RAM, BASIC on ROM)

1972: Intel 8008 (200 KHz, 8-bit, 16 kb memory access, 3500 transistors)

1987: Windows 2.0 released, with icons

1985: Windows 1.0 ships

1981: Xerox 8010 STAR introduced

1981: IBM PC released (4.7 MHz Intel 8088, 16 kb RAM [expandable to 256 kb], DOS 1.0)

1998:  Windows 98 released, supporting DVDs & USB, & integrating Internet Explorer Web browser into operating system

1995: Windows 95 released, a 32-bit operating system with a new interface

1992: Windows 3.1 released

1991: System 7 released (auto-ran multiple apps at same time, 256 color icons, separate folders for control panels & extensions)

2001: Microsoft releases Xbox game console (733 MHz Pentium III)

2001: Windows XP introduced, with a new candy-colored interface, built-in Windows Messenger for IM

2000: Windows ME (Millenium Edition) released, last of the DOS-based operating systems from Microsoft

1998: Research in Motion intros the RIM Blackberry 850 Wireless Handheld, with wireless delivery of email

2003: Windows 2003 Server released (Standard, Datacenter, Enterprise, & Web)