[whyenot]

When Steve Jobs was 13, he called up Bob Hewlitt to ask for some spare parts for a frequency counter he was working on. He worked at HP, was a technician at Atari, and attended the Homebrew Computer Club. He does know about electronics, and it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to me that he might actually know a thing or two about programming as well.

[dvdhsu]

He actually called Bill Hewlett [1], one of the founders of Hewlett and Packard [2].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g... 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Reddington_Hewlett

[whyenot]

You're right. Bill, not Bob. Thank you for the correction :)