one of my idols. definitely one of my main inspirations not only for wanting to make money in software but also to start my own company.

I was one of the original Apple customers (well my dad was, I just got access to it). we had an Apple II then a II+. Learned BASIC then 6502 Assembly. I remember one of the first times I took off the case lid and saw the guts of it, trying to figure out what all the different chips and doodads did. Good times.