blew up) and listened to our description of it. I could tell
he was impressed. I mean, we’d actually built a computer
from scratch and proved that it was possible—or going to
be possible—for people to have computers in a really small
space. Steve and I got close right away, even though he was
still in high school. 15
Nothing Stood in Jobs’s Way
It did not take long for the two Steves to become close friends.
Working on projects with Woz and Fernandez increased
Steve’s passion for electronics. He joined the electronics club at
Homestead High School, as well as Hewlett Packard’s Explorer
Club, which offered monthly lectures for young people interested
in electronics. It was at one of these lectures where Jobs saw his
first real computer. He was fascinated by it and vowed he would
own one in the future.
At another Explorer’s session, Steve became interested in holo-
graphics, a method of producing three-dimensional photographs
using laser beams. After the session, he waylaid the lecturer and
bombarded him with questions. According to Young and Simon,
Steve “had an intensity, driven by whatever