December 22, 2013
Steve Jobs' Parents' Garage Now A Landmark
The Los Altos, California, Historical Commission recently voted to designate 2066 Crist Drive -- the house where Steve Jobs grew up, with the legendary garage where Apple Computer was born -- as an "historic resource."
It's not the only famous garage of its kind in Silicon Valley, but between Jobs' astonishingly long line of successful breakthroughs and the fact that Apple has been bobbing in and out of the top spot of most valuable company in the world (jostling past Exxon Mobil and the stragglers, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and IBM), it'll do for the symbol of them all.
That garage, built in 1952, would 24 years later become the lab where he and co-founder Steve Wozniak assembled the first 100 Apple I computers.
"Woz," of course, was the engineer who imagined and created the working computer that put the stars in Jobs' eyes, and made them both stars in the process.
The garage's other historic function was office -- the space where Jobs met with their first investors.
The first 50 computers created by Jobs and Wozniak were sold to an electronics store in nearby Mountain View for $500 each. The rest were assembled for their friends in the Homebrew Computer Club, part of the tech ecosystem the two Steves were nurtured by.
Today, original Apple I's sell for tens of thousands. One was auctioned off a few years ago for more than $200,000.
That little garage simply reminds us that the power of a great idea -- put into effect with a committed team, solid planning, and persistent follow through -- can create the largest effect out of very humble beginnings.
- by Bill Ross
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Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at December 22, 2013 07:42 AM
I saw it in his movie. Truly a landmark of innovation.
Posted by: Six Sigma Philippines at January 6, 2014 09:48 PM
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