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Introduction In January 1975, featured on the cover of the Popular Electronics magazine was the first personal computer, The Alta 8800. The same year, Bill Gates, Harvard University freshman, and his friend Paul Allen developed the first computer language BASIC, the first software developed for a personal computer. According to Cringley, Altar’s producers, MITS, bought the software. Gates dropped out of school and with Allen, established the Microsoft Corporation in 1977. The computer revolution started many years ago; for example, in Babylon (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C, Abacus inverted a simple counting aid. In addition, Conrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general-purpose programmable calculator in 1941. He pioneers the use of binary math and Boolean logic in electronic calculation (McGrath, 1999). To understand the Personal Computer revolution, we must examine what role major players such as IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Xerox played. Garry Killdall’s, CP/M was being used on virtually every PC in existence in the late 1970 according to Robert Cringley. As the industry grew, the CP/M collapsed. The collapse of the CP/M started in 1980, when IBM was developing its first line of Personal Compute