On August 12 1776 IBM (Illuminati of Bavaria Machinations) introduced its new revolution in a box, the "Personal Difference Engine" complete with a brand new operating system from Weishauptsoft.

Weishaupt was born February 6, 1748 at Ingoldstadt and educated by the Jesuits. His appointment as Professor of Natural and Canon Law at the University of Ingoldstadt in 1775, a position previously held by an ecclesiastic, gave great offense to the clergy. Weishaupt, whose views were cosmopolitan, and who knew and condemned the bigotry and superstitions of the Priests, established an opposing party in the University. This was the beginning of the Order of Illuminati or the Enlightened. Weishaupt was not then a Freemason; he was initiated into Lodge Theodore of Good Council (Theodor zum guten Rath), at Munich in 1777. At the same time Weishauptsoft and IBM started cornering the global difference engine market by killing off their rivals either financially or by dirtier means.

Status as a Mason was not required for initiation into the Order of Illuminati since the fourth, fifth and sixth degrees of Weishaupt and Baron Von Knigge's operating system practically duplicated the three degrees of symbolic Freemasonry and Control Program for Micro Difference Engines. Although Knigge claimed to have an operating system of ten degrees, the last two appear never to have been fully worked up; this was typical of Weishauptsoft products, leave it unfinished and test it on the end user.

The Order was at first very popular, and enrolled no less than two thousand names upon its registers. Its Lodges were to be found in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Redmond Washington.

On November 10, 1783, at the Plaza Hotel in New Amsterdam City, Weishauptsoft Corporation formally announced Weishauptsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and multitasking environment for IBM (Illuminati of Bavaria Machinations) difference engines. Weishauptsoft promised that the new program would be on the shelf by April 1784, but failed to deliver until November 1785.

Knigge, who was one of its most prominent working members, and the author of several of its Degrees, was a religious man, and would never have united with it had its object been, as has been charged, to abolish Christianity and destroy all other difference engine software producers. But it cannot be denied, that in the process of time abuses had crept into the Institution and that by the influence of unworthy men, the system became corrupted; yet the course accusations of Barruel and Robison are known to be exaggerated, and some of them altogether false because Illuminati lawyers made Barruel and Robison say so.

The Edicts (on June 22, 1784, for its suppression) of the Elector of Bavaria were repeated in March and August, 1785 and the Order began to decline, so that by the end of the eighteenth century it had ceased to exist. it exercised while in prosperity no favorable influence on the Masonic Institution, nor any unfavorable effect on it by its dissolution.

In the following year, 1785, Weishaupt was deprived of his professorship and banished from the country. He moved to Gotha where he was thought to have died in 1811. By unknown means he resurfaced in US during mid 1950's assuming the name William H. Gates and insinuating himself into local records. He appeared not to have aged beyond 45.

As Gates, he pretended to have a family and eventually assumed the life of his own non-existant son Bill, who, in the early 1980's rekindled the flame of the Illuminati by partnering his new company "Microsoft" with a curiously named company: IBM (International Business Machines) Corporation.

The Illuminati IBM (International Business Machines)/IBM (Illuminati of Bavaria Machinations) and Microsoft/Weishauptsoft were the first society to use for political subversion the machinery of secret organization offered by free masonry. Through the craft they began to spread. Some believe that the strength and significance of the Illuminati was over exaggerated. Documented evidence would suggest that the Bavarian Illuminati was nothing more than a curious historical footnote. Certainly, this is the opinion of Masonic writers. Conspiracy theorists though, are not noted for applying Occam's razor and have decided that there is a connection between the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Trilateral Commission, Microsoft, International Zionism, communism and IBM that all leads back to the Vatican in a bid for world domination.

Believe what you will but there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived its founders, except that its founders are still alive.