Jobs, who had already worked as a game designer for Atari, persuaded Wozniak
to take his experience at Hewlett-Packard and join him in starting Apple Computer. Sacrificing one icon for the dream of another, Jobs sold his Volkswagen micro-bus to raise start-up money. In turn, Wozniak sold his prized Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, and together they managed to raise about $1,300 to get things started. On April 1, 1976, the team finally gave birth to that "visionary direction" with the introduction of the Apple I. Born in the same garage where Jobs' father had given him his start, the
computer sold for $666.66 and was an instant hit. Future history was set.

"There are tons of reasons why there is only one Steve Jobs in the world," says Ken Segall, the Creative Director at Intel and someone who has worked closely with Jobs. "He combines vision, intensity, creativity, intelligence and plain old common sense in ways that few human beings can." Invoking the Walt Disney metaphor, Segall goes on to say, "Even Walt would have to be a very different person to succeed on the mega-level that Disney works today, and I suspect that the 21st century Walt really would be a lot like Steve. At the heart of everything, what Steve does is sense what people truly want from technology‹even if they don't know it yet. And unlike so many others in
positions of corporate power, he well understands the power of a creative
idea. I think Walt would be impressed."

Not long after the duo's initial success, in the early 80's Wozniak opted out of the relationship to pursue a less high-profile path and devote himself to education. An enduring technology giant, having recently
announced a new wireless venture called Wheels Of Zeus, Wozniak still believes in Apple and in Jobs' new dream of the Digital Hub. "Steve Jobs has been acknowledging the computer as the home digital hub in more than just words and concepts," says Wozniak from his home office that is regularly monitored by millions of diehard Apple fans via Woz.org. "Apple has come out with software that truly brings home the advantages of a more convenience-oriented lifestyle, and that makes these tasks easy for average people. Software such as iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie save people the time and money involved in always keeping up enough and being expert enough to do these tasks."

1998 > Apple Computer shipped over 278,000 iMacs during its first six weeks on sale, making iMac the fastest selling Mac ever.
	2001 > June 28, Apple kills the G4 Cube, one of Jobs' most ambitious inventions
	1993 > Apple introduced the PowerBook 180c series on June 7, 1993 at $4,160. It is chic and hip.

It was around the time of Wozniak's early 80's departure from Apple that the team of Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull, two of the founders of what would later become Pixar, decided to leave the drudgery of the East Coast to join George Lucas ["Star Wars"] in California and work on special effects for the director's epic space opera. At Lucasfilm the two spent most of their time assisting the Industrial Light & Magic team [another Lucas company] in creating on-screen special effects. But the massive computing power and research required by the digital animation team needed funding, so in 1982 the byte cabal was recruited to help the ILM team work on the effects for "Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan." The film featured the very first completely computer generated sequence in film history and instantly earned Smith and Catmull a place in history. By 1984, the work had caught the attention of Disney Films, then chaired by Roy Disney and headed by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells. In a bid to update their animation techniques, Disney collaborated with the Lucasfilm team and developed the Computer Animation Production System, a technique that vastly improved the efficiency of Disney's animation production. It was at this point that Smith and Catmull got to know and ultimately befriend John Lasseter, then a Disney animator who shared the duo's dream of one day creating a completely digital animated film.