Just as AHS prepares to launch it’s one-to-one Mac computer initiative, the world is looking back at the life and accomplishments of the man who created the Macintosh.

“The genius we didn’t deserve, but the one we needed:” Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive of Apple Inc. passed away October 5, 2011, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs had stepped down from his position as CEO of Apple, due to his health problems, in August. He died at age 56.

Steve Jobs was indeed a true visionary, with more than 200 patents to his name. Without his Apple creations the world would not have the fruit of his genius.

Jobs first creation in 1977, the Apple I circuit board, was enough to help him convince a semi-retired Intel engineer and product marketing manager, Mike Markkula, that personal computing was the future. Markkula invested $250,000 in the enterprise and the rest is history. The Apple company went on to create the Apple II, the first Apple computer, in the early 1980’s. Later, following the creation of the Apple III and the Macintosh, Apple creations took flight.

The first television commercial for the Macintosh computer commercial cost 1.5 million to produce and was played during the 1984 NFL Super Bowl. That night millions of viewers got their first glimpse of the Macintosh computer. The commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, depicted the IBM world being destroyed by a new machine, the “Macintosh,” and it was indeed a sign of things to come.

In more recent years the entire world rushed to acquire IPod, launched in 2001, and the IPhone, that arrived on the scene in 2007, and just last year, Jobs introduced the IPad.

Steve Jobs was truly a great computer entrepreneur and his creative genius will be missed.