Rarely seen Steve Jobs- Apple co-founder

Where it all began

At age 21, in 1976, Steve Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in Jobs' family garage in Los Altos, Calif. Jobs' father removed his car restoration equipment and brought home a wooden workbench that served as Apple's first manufacturing base. Jobs returned to the empty garage in 1996 to be photographed for Fortune.

                                   The computer that started it all

Jobs with Steve Wozniak in 1979, posing for Life magazine with the Apple II, Apple's first breakthrough product. 

Building the Mac

The First MacJobs and his team -- seated around Apple's conference room table in its Cupertino headquarters -- work on the Macintosh computer over lunch in 1982. The landmark computer would be released two years later. 

Bare essentials

Known for not buying furniture, Jobs was photographed in his Los Gatos, Calif., living room for Time magazine in 1982. 

The Mac

Jobs poses with the Macintosh computer, introduced in January 1984 at Apple's annual meeting. The iconic "1984" commercial -- portraying a monolithic IBM -- airs during the Super Bowl. 

Winter wraps

Jobs and Apple CEO John Sculley sit on a Central Park bench in 1984 with the Macintosh under wraps in its case. A year later, Jobs was ousted from Apple. He later launched a computer company called Next, where he stayed for 12 years before returning to Apple in 1997. Scully remained CEO of Apple until 1993. 

Up Next

Jobs with Next employees on the bus after a visit to the company's unfinished factory in Fremont, Calif., in 1987. Next's first computer is released a year later.

Steve and Ross

Jobs and the Next board of directors meet in the company's Fremont factory in 1987. Ross Perot, the Texas entrepreneur who later ran for U.S. president, is seated third from the end in a dark suit and tie, directly across from Jobs. Perot provided venture capital for Next

Steve and Bill

In 1991, Fortune invited Jobs and Bill Gates to discuss the PC's future. Jobs was leading Next, and Gates was already a billionaire. They met at Jobs' Palo Alto home on a Sunday evening. 

Hail the return

Jobs walks to his hotel with Apple colleagues after the 1997 MacWorld Expo in Boston, following his return to Apple. Later that year he launches the "Think Different" advertising campaign, which is often credited for Apple's turnaround.

Brand new Apple

Reclining in Apple's boardroom in 2000, Jobs talks to senior vice president for software engineering Avie Tevanian (center), who led development of Mac OS X.

The recovery

Steve Jobs sat in this chair every day at his home as he recovered from pancreatic cancer treatment in 2004. He had surgery in July of that year to remove a tumor.