The 2066 of the Crist Drive, in Palo Alto, is a Pilgrimage location for each apple lover and technology in general. Once it belonged to Paul and Clara Jobs, the adoptive parents of a Steve Jobs who also resided there on April 1, 1976, the date of the official birth of Apple Computer.
This humble origin of the apple is often attached to the example to illustrate the distance to which it can be reached on a professional level. And that is almost always done by saying that Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded the business in the garage of this house. Well, it's not true and it's something that Woz has already denied several times. In fact, we already said over ten years ago.
“It's a bit of myth”
Steve Jobs Archive Photography Returning for years later in the famous house (and the famous garage) in which he lived for years
Next to Ronald Wayne, who also appears in the Scriptures of the Apple Foundation and made a historical error which made him lose millions of dollars, the Steves They had a certain relationship with the garage of Steve Jobs' house. Yes indeed, The story is very different from the way he says.
Thanks to the numerous interviews, statements and books around its protagonists, we know that the house where Steve Jobs lived in 1976 was an important place for Apple. It was the scene of Apple's birth as long as Apple I, designed by Wozniak, appeared there.
There is a belief, in addition, that The garage of the house was the place chosen to go up everything. A place that has served both shipping for administrative efforts, as well as the workshop for the plaques assembly. However, none of the participants of these Apple's beginnings confirmed it as is. Far from that, there is an interview with Steve Wozniak in which he categorically denies it.
“The garage is a bit of a myth, because we really do not design Apple I in the garage, we do not create circuit plates and we have not made prototypes or a type of manufacturing.”
“When you don't have money …”
Among these, Wozniak wanted to clearly indicate that there was a real part in the belief by confirming that, in fact, the garage existed and had “a significant value at the birth of the apple”. However, not like this office workshop which is considered, but rather as a refuge to discuss. “When you have no money, you have to work at home,” continued to say Woz in the interview to finally give a file to the question strongly: “But no, it was not that Apple I” was manufactured.
In any case, far from breaking the magic, it does not stop having less will have the place of origin of the apple. Steve Wozniak has put technical knowledge and hands, Ronald Wayne The Money and Steve Jobs the Business Vision. Apple's climb was a fulgreur and in a few months, they have already been installed in a gigantic seat, with an IPO four years later and already being one of the major technological promises until it reaches his arrival.
Therefore, the mysticisms and the myths of the garages separate, that of the apple is a story that clearly reflects that there is no need to go far. It is not something simple that they have achieved and much less frequent, but, like other large companies, it was born in the most unimaginable way.
Via | Ign Brazil
Cover image | Wally gobetz in Flickr and Free Malaysia today
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