At age 21, Jobs and Stephen Wozniak started Apple in Jobs' parents' garage. Together this Mutt and Jeff pair breathed life into the then-embryonic personal computer industry. Jobs - the marketing and strategic whiz of Apple - talked of putting computing power in the ``hands of the people.'' Wozniak found the technical ways to do it. Two years later, Jobs was a millionaire.By 25, his net worth hit $100 million.

By then - 1985 - Jobs had helped shape the industry. His first computer hit, the Apple II, was the first popular desktop computer of any kind. The Macintosh was introduced in 1984 as the first easy-to-use PC. Its ``mouse'' - a sort of electronic pointer - and use of pictures instead of complex commands has influenced the way every other PC works, including those from IBM and Compaq. Along the way, Apple suffered two miserable failures: Apple III, a home computer, and Lisa, a high-end business computer.

To get an idea of Jobs' magnetism, Joe Hutsko, who had worked as [John Sculley]'s assistant at Apple, even sought a job at NeXT. When he was told there were no openings, Hutsko bought a batch of Swatch watches and gave them to key NeXT people with the note, ``So you won't forget me when the time is right.'' Explains Hutsko: ``Money means nothing to me. I just wanted to get up in the morning excited about work.''