Steve Jobs is adopted soon after birth in 1955 Jobs enrolls in Reed College in Portland, Ore. He drops out after one semester in 1972 Steve Wozniak - built the early Blue Box Experimented with LSD The Mad Hatter in an amusement park IBM Bill Gates Good artists copy, great artists steal. -Picasso Xerox demonstrating the GUI and mouse to Apple. the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan in 1985, the Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987, and was named Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1989 by Inc. Magazine. October 28, 1955 Dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to pursue a career in software. Paul Allen- helped Gates adapt BASIC for the Altair and bought QDOS from Tim Paterson for $50,000 Had a passion for poker Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. IBM Steve Jobs Good artists copy, great artists steal. -Picasso The clause in the contract with IBM that allowed Micrososft to license BASIC to other companies President George Bush awards Bill Gates the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement, at a White House Rose Garden ceremony in 1992.