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My Grandmother’s House Is the Birthplace of Apple Computers

Photo by Marilyn Jobs, courtesy Megan Chovanec

This piece was originally published in Zócalo Public Square .

My grandma’s house is your typical white, one-story house in the suburbs of the Silicon Valley—it has rustic red brick accents, baby blue trim, and a perfectly manicured front lawn. It also happens to have signs out front that read “No Trespassing. Security Cameras Are Filming. All Pictures Must Be Taken From Street.”

To me, my grandma’s house is a second home, but to the rest of the world, it’s the place where Apple Inc. was created.

Steve Jobs grew up in this Los Altos house. In 1976, according to oft-repeated legend, he hatched the beginnings of Apple here and put together the first 50 computers in the garage with Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Wozniak recently said that they didn’t do any manufacturing in the garage—they just finalized the computers in there. But the garage did represent them better than anywhere else.) In 1989, my paternal grandmother, Marilyn Jobs, married her second husband, Paul Jobs, Steve’s adoptive father. Soon after, my grandma moved into the house with the (not-yet-quite-so) famous garage.

As a kid, I always looked forward to going to my grandma’s house. It was a 25-minute drive across the South Bay from where my family lived in San Jose. I always knew we were within five minutes of my grandma’s house when we exited the 280 Freeway onto Foothill Expressway. As we turned onto my grandma’s street, we passed a strip mall with a Chevron Gas Station, a Trader Joe’s, and a Peet’s Coffee. When our car pulled into the driveway, my grandma would open the front door, smiling and waving at us from the porch. I always jumped out of the car and greeted her with one of my biggest hugs.

My grandma’s house is where I met my newborn brother for the first time because I was staying with her while my parents were in the hospital. It’s the place I went to after preschool to wait for my parents to pick me up and eat spoonfuls of smooth Skippy peanut butter while curled up in a reclining chair. It’s the place I went when I was sick, snuggling in bed to watch Tom and Jerry . It’s the place where, to this day, my family still goes to celebrate birthdays and eat my grandma’s delicious cake.

Throughout my childhood, my parents always mentioned that Grandma’s house was a special place, and to me it was, but in a completely different way. So when I was 10, and my parents told me about the wider significance of my grandma’s house, I shrugged it off with a laugh. How could this quaint place have been Ground Zero for such a world-famous company that steered the course of today’s technology?

Despite its celebrity status, this three-bedroom, three-bathroom house built in the early 1950s is a humble place. In the living room, porcelain Lladros figurines, Hummel collectibles, and blue-and-white china fill a curio cabinet by the fireplace. A Japanese bobtail cat named Daisy is always lounging in the small kitchen. A box of Betty Crocker white cake mix and a generic tub of chocolate frosting can always be found in the cupboard, waiting for grandma’s touch of love to make them special.

In 1976, the two-car garage was filled with computer boards, components, wires—and the promise of a great company. In fact, the garage was so packed with Steve Jobs’ equipment that Paul was forced to build a second garage in the backyard to store the cars. Nowadays, the garage is mostly filled with my grandma’s laundry, cat litter, and her Ford sedan. The only remnants of the garage’s famous past are a few of the original wooden shelves and a wood-panel wall, as well as the same cold concrete floors. It’s funny to think of people traveling hundreds of miles to catch a glimpse of this “treasure trove.”

Paul Jobs passed away in 1993, but my grandma still lives there. I’m in college now, 379 miles away in Southern California, but always visit when I come home on breaks. It’s pretty awesome to imagine that some of the first ideas for a world-renowned company were thought of in a place where I spent so much of my childhood. As a graphic-design student, I truly appreciate the innovation that came out of the garage at my grandma’s house. Like so many people, I have an iPhone. When I gaze at it, I’m reminded that technology revolutions have to start somewhere—even if that somewhere is in the garage of a humble home.

Private Residence: Original Apple Garage

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This modest 1950's California ranch-style home in a suburban Bay Area neighborhood carries a local historical designation. The single-story house on quiet Crist Drive in Los Altos is where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers in the mid-1970s in his family's garage.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, along with Ronald G. Wayne, formed the Apple Computer Company on April Fools’ Day, 1976. Apple Headquarters moved from Jobs' garage to a building on Stevens Creek Boulevard in nearby Cupertino where the rest is history.

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Steve Jobs' childhood home on Crist Drive in Los Altos Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. The house will eventually become listed on the Registry of HIstoric Places, to preserve it. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)

LOS ALTOS — When it was all just starting to happen for him in 1977, around the time the venture capital boys began beating a path to his door, Steve Jobs would greet them at the house on Crist Drive wearing his red turtleneck — the one his mom had washed so many times the color had faded to pink. Neighbors suspected the young man might be slightly deranged.

“When things were really moving, fancy cars would come by the house and he’d come dancing out in his cutoff jeans with his underwear hanging out, barefoot and hippie-like,” recalls Joan Tankersley, 87, with a small shudder. She has lived across the street for 60 years from the house where Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the first Apple computers.

This week, in a first step toward memorializing the modest California ranch-style home, a fountainhead of what became Silicon Valley, the Los Altos Historical Commission reviewed a proposal to designate 2066 Crist Drive a home of “historical significance.” If it’s added to the registry, the city would issue a plaque if the homeowner requested one, noting the year the house was built and whether it’s a historic resource or landmark. Either designation could affect any future attempts at structure modifications.

So far, the review’s only real effect has been to expose a rift between Patty Jobs — Steve’s adoptive sister — and Marilyn Jobs, their stepmother, who lives in the house. The Historical Commission sent several letters to the house about the planned designation that Patty never received. Now she’s unhappy the city proceeded without her involvement. Patty Jobs said she and her stepmother are currently not on speaking terms.

Patty was one of Steve’s many helpers, building circuit boards for him in their living room as early as 1975. “I’d get yelled at if I bent a prong,” she recalls.

By 1977, Wozniak had designed the Apple II — the revolutionary forerunner to the personal computer that would change the world, but it was the 22-year-old Jobs who emerged from his family garage to excitedly pitch the new technology.

“I remember … he came running across the street to say, ‘We got color!’ ” Tankersley said. “We weren’t particularly interested and didn’t know what the heck he was doing in there.”

As it turned out, Jobs was inventing the future.

Garages have a mythic place in Silicon Valley lore as places of technological ferment, and the commission’s review was the first step toward conferring historic status upon Apple’s seedling site. Ron Wayne, a co-founder who helped devise Apple’s corporate charter but dropped out before the money rolled in, said Jobs is deserving of enshrinement. “Woz created the product,” Wayne said. “Jobs was the dynamo that turned it into a corporate empire.”

Marilyn Jobs, who became Steve’s stepmother after his adoptive mother, Clara, died and his father, Paul Jobs, remarried, has put a small sign in front of the house that says, “All photographs must be taken from the sidewalk!” Pilgrims constantly take pictures with their iPhones. Recently, BJ Singh and his wife, Kristi, of Columbia, Md., did an iPhone search for “Steve Jobs’ childhood home” and went to Crist Drive to pay their respects.

“I hope Apple navigation doesn’t screw up Steve Jobs’ house,” BJ said, gently mocking one of the company’s most mortifying technological failures. “I thought there would be a crowd. I’m surprised we’re the only ones.” Kristi, a techno-revanchist who still carries a BlackBerry, declared herself “underwhelmed.”

“I was thinking more of a shrine,” she said, “or at least a sign saying, ‘Steve Jobs grew up here.’ “

Next-door neighbor Larry Waterland doesn’t fancy having to duck slow-moving Apple groupies. “What a horrible idea,” he said, expressing his misgivings about any kind of historic monument to Jobs.

The neighbor moved in 37 years ago, just as Jobs was conjuring up his brain in a box. One day the unshaven young genius came by sporting sandals, long straggly hair and a question: “Do you know anything about computers?’ “

Waterland had just finished his Ph.D. at Stanford in chemical engineering and wanted to put the kid in his place. “You punched cards, put them in a big deck,” he said about the mainframe machines of that time. “Steve took me over to the garage. He had a circuit board with a chip on it, a DuMont TV set, a Panasonic cassette tape deck and a keyboard. He said, ‘This is an Apple computer.’ I said, ‘You’ve got to be joking.’ I dismissed the whole idea.”

Daniel Kottke, who assembled most of the circuit boards for the first two generations of Apple computers and spent the summer of 1976 sleeping on the sofa in Jobs’ living room, also supports special designation. He lives near the legendary Hewlett-Packard garage and said, “I hope there’s a plaque on Steve’s garage someday. I think it’s important to memorialize these things.”

Tall, thin and bearded, Kottke had been Jobs’ companion on a pilgrimage to India, and was arguably Apple’s first employee. “I was the only person who worked in the garage,” Kottke said. “Woz would show up once a week with his latest code. Steve Jobs didn’t get his hands dirty in that sense.”

Kottke said the fledgling company actually was cooked up in the kitchen, where Jobs spent hours on the phone and where he convinced Paul Terrell to take 50 Apple I computers at his Byte Shop in Mountain View for $500 apiece.

When Apple went public in 1977, Jobs refused to grant Kottke any stock options as a founding employee. “Steve just stopped talking to me,” said Kottke, who later received Apple shares as a gift from Wozniak. “Everyone I worked with was becoming a millionaire, and I was working for $12 an hour. I forgave him 20 years ago, but I can imagine he had feelings of guilt he didn’t want to deal with.”

“You pass by the house, you wouldn’t even know that anything significant happened there,” said Sapna Marfatia, an architect and member of the Historical Commission. “It’s a very ordinary, everyday person’s home. And yet, it changed a whole industry and there was a kind of revolution because of it.”

Staff writer Jason Green contributed to this report. Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004. Follow him at Twitter.com/BruceNewmanTwit .

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What steve jobs' famous garage where he started apple looks like today.

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and co-founder Seve Wozniak brainstormed some of their earliest ideas in the garage of Jobs' childhood home. Now, that garage is being used as a filiming location for Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's upcoming Steve Jobs biopic.

CNET stopped by the Los Altos, Calif.-based house on Friday morning and saw film crews putting the finishing touches on its garage, which will be used as part of the set.

Here's the photo that's being passed around Twitter.

Steve Jobs’ Movie Finally Starts Filming At Iconic Garage Where Apple Was Started: http://t.co/tEAbGtj03k pic.twitter.com/Kos256QGCQ

— Rick Racela (@ric_rac) January 17, 2015

KPIX5, a local CBS affiliate , also took some photos of the house as the crew prepared it for filming.

Hollywood gives Steve Jobs bio a re-boot, filming in Los Altos garage where Apple was born. http://t.co/dhrC5fGld6 pic.twitter.com/g14t8WGYCM

— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) January 17, 2015

It's unclear when the movie will actually launch, but it's seen its fair share of setbacks over the past several months. Michael Fassbender was cast as Jobs after Christian Bale turned down the role, and the picture was recently dropped by Sony and picked up by Universal.

The plot is said to focus on three major product launches, including the iPod, the NeXT cube, and the first Mac.

Check out the full video from KPIX 5 below.

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Steve jobs: from garage to world’s most valuable company, by dag spicer | december 02, 2011.

So we’re sitting in the payphone trying to make a blue box call. And the operator comes back on the line. And we’re all scared and we’d try it again. … And she comes back on the line; we’re all scared so we put in money. And then a cop car pulls up. And Steve was shaking, you know, and he got the blue box back into my pocket. I got it– he got it to me because the cop turned to look in the bushes for drugs or something, you know? So I put the box in my pocket. The cop pats me down and says, “What’s this?” I said, “It’s an electronic music synthesizer.” Wasn’t too musical. Second cop says, “What’s the orange button for?” “It’s for calibration,” says Steve.

— steve wozniak, lecture at computer history museum, 2002.

So begins one of the earliest chapters in the life of two remarkable young men whose youth, energy and enthusiasm transformed the world.

The “Blue Box” was a simple electronic gizmo that bypassed telephone company billing computers, allowing anyone to make free telephone calls anywhere in the world. The Blue Box was illegal, but the specifications for hacking into the telephone network were published in a telephone company journal and many youngsters with a flair for electronics built them. The “two Steves” had a great deal of fun building and using them for “ethical hacking,” with Wozniak building the kits and Jobs selling them—a pattern which would emerge again and again in the lives of these two innovators. (Wozniak once telephoned the Vatican, pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak to the Pope—just to see if he could. When someone answered, Woz got scared and hung up.)

Wozniak and Jobs Blue Box, ca. 1972. The Blue Box allowed electronics hobbyists to make free telephone calls. CHM #X727.86

These early playful roots are what Wozniak remembers most fondly of Jobs. As columnist Mike Cassidy recalled in a San Jose Mercury News interview, what these two friends most remembered was “not bringing computers to the masses … or the many ‘aha’ moments designing computers. Instead, it’s the time the two tried to unfurl a banner depicting a middle finger salute from the roof of Homestead High School…” or their many Blue Box exploits. Walter Isaacson, Jobs’s official biographer, cites Jobs reflecting on the Blue Box:

If it hadn’t been for the Blue Boxes, there would have been no Apple. I’m 100% sure of that. Woz and I learned how to work together, and we gained the confidence that we could solve technical problems and actually put something into production.

— (isaacson, p. 30).

Steve Jobs (circled) at Homestead High School Electronics Club, Cupertino, California ca. 1969

Jobs, like Wozniak before him, attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, a solidly middle-class school in the suburbs of Silicon Valley. Homestead was progressive, with an innovative electronics program that shaped Wozniak’s life. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for some time. They met in 1971 when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced then 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. After hours, the two Steves would often meet at Hewlett-Packard lectures in Palo Alto, and both were hired by HP for a summer. Jobs graduated high school in 1972 and attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for a semester, during which he collected Coke bottles for money and ate free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. After drifting from class to class, Jobs left for India on a spiritual quest with Reed College friend Dan Kottke (who later became Apple employee #12). Jobs returned as a Buddhist and in 1974 began working at the legendary gaming company Atari as a technician.

The Homebrew Computer Club newsletter was a forum for hobbyists to exchange information and ideas.

The next year, Jobs began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club, a group of electronics and computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley who got together to explore the latest in a new technology, the microcomputer.

Wozniak, who had no formal engineering training, designed the Apple-1 computer as a way of “showing off” to the people at the Homebrew Club. Based on an inexpensive 6502 microprocessor, the Apple-1 came as a kit and was aimed squarely at hobbyists who wanted to own their own computer, even if they weren’t quite sure what they could do with it. The Apple-1 was a masterpiece of circuit design and its elegance impressed all who could appreciate its simple but powerful conception. Ever the salesman, Jobs quickly appreciated that there might be a demand for the Apple-1 beyond the geeky members of the Homebrew Club. Jobs showed an Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of the local Byte Shop computer store, who placed an order for 50 of the machines—so long as they came pre-assembled. To obtain funds to purchase parts for the Apple-1, Jobs had obtained 30 days’ credit from suppliers—just long enough to enable Wozniak and Jobs to build the computers (mostly in Jobs’s parents’ garage) and get paid for them. To fund the circuit board layout of the Apple-1, Wozniak sold his beloved HP-65 calculator and Jobs his Volkswagen van. The Byte Shop order brought in $50,000, a “total shock” to Wozniak, who was earning one-tenth of that as an engineer at HP. The sale spurred Jobs into thinking about a new computer that anyone—not just those handy with a soldering iron—could afford and use.

Homebrew Computer Club meeting, 1978 Courtesy of Lee Felsenstein

Steve Jobs and Wozniak using Apple-1 system, ca. 1976 ©Apple, Inc. / Joe Melena

The Apple-1 kit computer introduced in 1976 Photo: ©Mark Richards

Early ad for the Apple-1 computer system, ca. 1976

Funding this vision presented some challenges: the idea of people having their own computers was viewed as absurd at the time. Banks were unwilling to loan the two Steves money. After several unsuccessful visits with venture capitalists, Jobs met Mike Markkula, who, at 32, was already retired from Intel. Markkula was an electrical engineer with solid management skills who would provide “adult supervision” to the young company as well as something else: he personally invested $250,000. The three founded Apple Computer in January, 1977.

Steve and I get a lot of credit, but Mike Markkula was probably more responsible for our early success, and you never hear about him.

— steve wozniak, failure magazine, july 2000.

The original Apple II personal computer, the machine that propelled Apple into a global company (1977) Photo: ©Mark Richards

Jobs and Wozniak immediately moved forward with their new machine, the Apple II. It was a big improvement over the Apple-1. It had an integrated keyboard and case, could plug into a TV set for display, and was ready to run right out of the box. It also had color graphics, which made it unique among similar computers at the time such as the Radio Shack TRS-80 and the Commodore PET. It was a consumer item, not a kit for hobbyists.

If the Apple II featured typically brilliant Wozniak design, the marketing was vintage Jobs. This was Apple’s first mass-produced product, and Jobs sold it as a computer for everyone, from students to business professionals. The Apple II’s success was unprecedented, in part because, under Markkula’s urging, Apple donated or gave huge discounts to schools—ensuring that a new generation of students would learn about computers on an Apple. But the Apple II also enjoyed a business windfall with the arrival of the spreadsheet program VisiCalc in 1979. Powered by demand from both the education and business markets, Apple II sales soared. The Apple II would live on in various models until 1993—an astonishing 16 years. Early chants of “Apple II Forever” among the Apple faithful rang long and clear.

Apple Macintosh, 1984. The Mac revolutionized personal computing by introducing the graphical user interface (GUI), allowing anyone to use a computer CHM# 102633564 Photo: ©Mark Richards

Jobs’s greatest triumph, however, was the 1984 Macintosh, “the computer for the rest of us.” Macintosh offered users an entirely new way of interacting: the graphical user interface (GUI). No longer would people have to learn special commands or have specialized training to use a computer. Now everyone who could point and click a mouse (even children) could run a computer. The Macintosh kicked off a new personal computer revolution, one that stressed intuition and use of a common graphical look and feel over memorization of computer codes.

Apple launched the Macintosh with a revolutionary television commercial produced by science fiction filmmaker Ridley Scott. The commercial aired only once—during the 1984 Super Bowl broadcast. Even with its splashy introduction and its breakthroughs in usability and design, however, the Mac started slowly in the marketplace and sales were modest in the first year. Moreover, Jobs’s intense personality, drive for perfection and difficult management style frequently clashed with others at Apple. In 1985, he suffered the same fortune as many Silicon Valley founders: he was fired by the board of directors. Jobs’s departure marked the end of an era and the beginning of a period of massive hits and equally big misses for him. That period would last for a decade.

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Watch vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple

Two years ago we made a decision. We saw some new technology and we made a decision to risk our company.

— steve jobs’s next presentation, october 12, 1988, san francisco symphony hall.

Pixar Image Computer, 1986. This computer was used for generating images from complex data sets such as CAT scans, oil exploration or scenes from a virtual world. Disney purchased several dozen for use in animation. CHM# 102621974 Photo: ©Mark Richards

Jobs spent the next ten years away from Apple but was by no means taking time off. In 1986, he bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, renaming it Pixar. Pixar had started as a manufacturer of high-performance graphics hardware. Its main product was the Pixar Image Computer, a rendering engine for animation. While the computer was technically sophisticated, its high cost (about $130,000) made it appealing only to well-funded customers such as advanced medical research institutions and government laboratories. There was one exception: Disney. The legendary studio bought several dozen of the systems for use in animation.

Scene from Pixar’s computer-generated feature-length film Toy Story ©Pixar

Disney’s interest in Pixar’s hardware, however, was not enough to save the company from lackluster sales. Pixar finally sold its hardware division in 1990. Jobs shifted Pixar’s focus and concentrated it on producing short film sequences and commercials. The next year, partly due to the success of Pixar’s Oscar-winning “Tin Toy” short film, Pixar and Disney agreed to produce a computer generated film called “A Tin Toy Christmas.” Hollywood had met computing, and together Pixar and Disney would move computer-generated graphics from the niche of special effects to the heart of filmmaking itself.

Pixar brain trust: Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, John Lasseter ©Pixar

Using groundbreaking computer technology and some of the most skilled animators and storytellers in the world, Pixar produced the blockbuster film Toy Story, released in 1995. Toy Story proved that a feature-length motion picture could be entirely animated by computer and also made wildly entertaining. Pixar exploded as a Hollywood powerhouse, and its partnership with Disney produced some of the biggest box office hits of the decade. Jobs sold Pixar to Disney in 2006, earning more than $7 billion from his initial $10 million investment and becoming Disney’s largest single shareholder.

The NeXT Cube (1990) was a masterpiece of engineering… but was too expensive. NeXT evolved into a software company after the Cube and several other NeXt hardware products failed in the marketplace. NeXT’s greatest innovation was the NeXTSTEP operating environment CHM# 102626734

While Pixar was beginning to work its magic, Jobs was working in parallel on another computer startup. His new company, NeXT, set out to build high-performance UNIX workstations for the educational and scientific market. The machines, introduced in 1990, were prototypically Jobs: elegant, well-engineered and easy to use, but the NeXT “Cube” was too expensive for mass appeal. Although it had high-performance hardware, the NeXT delivered its greatest innovation in the form of its “object-oriented” operating system, NeXTStep. Yet despite its originality and power, the NeXT system struggled to find its place in the market. It did, however, have a significant claim to fame: a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee would write the program for the World Wide Web on a NeXT. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, mainly for its software and operating system, and Jobs returned to Apple as a consultant.

Jobs with the original iMac, 1998 ©Apple Inc. / Moshe Brakha

Jobs joined an Apple that was in no better shape than the company from which he had been unceremoniously fired. It was losing money at a catastrophic rate. Its product line was bloated and confusing. Its marketing was ineffective. Its innovations in user interfaces and software had long since been eclipsed by Microsoft’s Windows and applications for the Windows system, which had become the de facto standard for personal computing worldwide. And Apple seemingly had no strategy for capitalizing on the internet, which was exploding as a force in home and business computing.

A year after returning to Apple, Jobs was named interim CEO, replacing Gil Amelio in July 1997. Apple had lost more than $700 million the preceding quarter. It was running out of money and it looked as if it might not survive. Jobs quickly sought new financing, terminated languishing projects, fired hundreds of people and focused the company on just a desktop computer and a laptop for professionals and for consumers. The first desktop computer from the new Jobs era was the iMac (1998). Ultimately available in several colors of the rainbow, the iMac emphasized connection to the Internet and—Jobs’s mantra—simplicity. Out of the box, the iMac could be on the Internet in just two easy steps. “There is no Step 3,” Apple claimed. The iMac and its distinctive design also marked the first tangible collaboration between Jobs and Jonathan Ive, the British-born designer with whom he would form a legendary partnership.

Learn about the roots of Pixar. Watch the CHM lecture: Pixar: A Human Story of Computer Animation

One More Thing

The return of elvis would not have provoked a bigger sensation, — jim carlton, january 1997, the wall street journal, from “steve jobs,” by walter isaacson.

In 2000, the Apple board removed the term “interim” from Jobs’s CEO title, cementing his permanent return to the company he had co-founded. It must have seemed a glorious triumph for Jobs personally. For the Apple faithful, it represented a glimmer of hope that the resurgent company they loved might have a chance. Perhaps no one within or outside Apple—with the possible exception of Jobs himself—could foresee that the company was embarking on one of the most remarkable decades any company in any industry had ever experienced.

iPod Evaluation and Test Prototype (2001). The original iPod had a miniaturized 5GB hard disk drive and could “store 1,000 songs in your pocket.” CHM# 102633636 Photo: ©Mark Richards

Innovations came in rapid-fire succession. In 2001, Apple introduced OS X, the new operating system for the Mac platform. OS X marked the total redesign of the Mac operating system from the ground up. It was a direct result of Apple’s NeXT acquisition and was based on NeXT’s OPENSTEP environment and the BSD Unix system developed at UC Berkeley.

That same year Apple opened its first retail store, in Tysons Corner, Virginia. It was a daring step at a time when computer companies had long since abandoned their own branded retail outlets in favor of “big box” electronic superstores and internet shopping. Like Apple products themselves, the stores reflected an austere simplicity and were organized not by product category but by how Jobs believed people wanted to use them. Products were stylishly arranged for direct use by customers in a minimalist, almost laboratory-like zone of utilitarian consumerism. As usual, Jobs sweated the details, ensuring the marble floors were the right color and the washroom signs were not too obtrusive. A “Genius Bar” staffed by Apple experts answered customer problems on-site. The stores were hailed as a perfect blend of the products Apple made and the brand itself.

The most momentous event of 2001, however, was the introduction of the iPod digital music player. Although not a new idea, Apple’s take on the device featured an easy-to-use interface and, thanks to new miniaturized hard drive technology, a prodigious amount of music storage. Jobs announced the iPod with the slogan “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Music was sync’d to the iPod through the iTunes software application, another Apple innovation. As of October 2011, more than 300 million iPods had been sold worldwide.

In 2003, Jobs introduced an even more radical innovation: the iTunes store and music management system. The iTunes platform represented the successful integration of retail music, portable player, e-commerce, digital rights management and a simple desktop environment where users could manage their music libraries. Jobs convinced powerful and deeply skeptical music company executives that, together, the iPod and iTunes system represented a legitimate and profitable alternative to music piracy, which was then rampant through bootleg services such as Napster and LimeWire. In exchange, Jobs won a revolutionary concession from the music industry: flat-rate pricing of 99 cents per downloaded song. The iTunes concept revolutionized the retail music industry, and sounded the death knell for brick-and-mortar record stores. As of October 2011, the iTunes music store had sold more than 16 billion songs.

The iPod marked a turning point in Apple’s strategy. Jobs sought to move Apple beyond computers and into Apple-powered consumer devices. It was a very bold gamble, and the success of the iPod and iTunes showed that the strategy could win on two levels: it eroded traditional industry structures, and it catapulted Apple into a widely recognized global consumer brand.

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Steve Jobs unveiling iPhone to the world

At the 2007 Macworld trade show, Jobs announced that Apple would drop the word “Computer” from its name and become simply “Apple Inc.” The move solidified the profound shift in the company’s direction and signaled its seemingly unlimited ambition in the multi-billion dollar market for switched-on consumer products. At the Macworld show, Jobs also saved his customary “one more thing” portion of his presentation for another blockbuster announcement: the iPhone. He described it as nothing less than the re-invention of the telephone: a combination “widescreen iPod with touch controls,” a “revolutionary mobile phone,” and a “breakthrough Internet communicator.”

When the iPhone went on-sale, thousands of people worldwide waited patiently outside Apple stores, sometimes for days, to be first to purchase one. This remarkable show of brand loyalty reflected how deeply Apple products had connected with their users on a personal level. Like the iPod before it, the iPhone sold briskly and transformed another industry (telephones) by making the smartphone an established category of “must-have” device, for everyone from teenagers to business executives. The iPhone was a computer at its core: it ran Apple’s iOS operating system, which was based on Mac OS X, its desktop operating system. To add extra capabilities, the user downloaded ‘apps’ (applications) from the iTunes App Store, launched in July 2008. By October 2011, more than 18 billion apps had been downloaded.

iPad (2010)

Jobs’s last major product launch was the iPad, a tablet computer optimized for media consumption, quick emails, and web browsing. Like the previous iPod and iPhone iOS devices, the iPad pioneered an entirely new set of experiences and possibilities for users. Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, and within a year software developers had introduced more than 100,000 apps for the device, ranging from navigation aids to cameras to wildly popular games and ways both to create and consume every type of media. Yet unlike the iPod and the iPhone, the iPad did not simply improve upon a major segment of consumer electronics: it invented a largely new category. The iPad was another triumph of Apple engineering and marketing, one deeply shaped by Jobs at every step.

Certain qualities persisted throughout Jobs’s career, from the Apple-1 to the iPad. One was an unshakable determination to create something of beauty, in the aesthetic and engineering senses of that word. Another was enormously successful risk-taking, from selling his van to finance the Apple-1 to perfecting the music player, telephone and tablet computer. Another was Jobs’s uncanny ability to focus on a larger vision—and, in the case of consumers, to anticipate whole categories of needs that few of his rivals saw. Finally, especially in the iOS devices, Jobs engaged in “ecosystem thinking,” a drive to integrate radical new hardware advances with bold new software and services. iTunes and the App Stores were as critical to the success of iOS devices as the hardware itself, and established Apple not simply as an unparalleled product company but also as a global content distribution company.

Jobs once said his goal in life was “to make a dent in the universe.” Isaacson asserts that Jobs changed seven industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, telephones, tablet computing, digital publishing and retail stores. At the end of this life, Jobs saw Apple surpass Exxon as the most valuable company in the world as measured in market capitalization. Ultimately, Jobs made his dent, and more. A fitting tribute, borrowed from the tomb of English architect Sir Christopher Wren, might be: Si monumentum requires circumspice. “If you seek his monument, look around you.”

Steven Paul Jobs was born February 24, 1955, and died October 5, 2011.

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Dag Spicer oversees the Museum’s permanent historical collection, the most comprehensive repository of computers, software, media, oral histories, and ephemera relating to computing in the world. He also helps shape the Museum’s exhibitions, marketing, and education programs, responds to research inquiries, and has given hundreds of interviews on computer history and related topics to major print and electronic news outlets such as NPR, the New York Times, The Economist, and CBS News. A native Canadian, Dag most recently attended Stanford University before joining the Museum in 1996.

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1955 Steve Jobs is born in San Francisco on 24 February 1955, and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.

1974 He takes a job at videogame company Atari Inc but resigns after a few months to travel to India.

1975 Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak build a prototype computer in the garage of Jobs' parents.

1976 Jobs and Wozniak co-found Apple Computer to sell their machines, staring with the Apple I.

1977 The Apple II is launched. The first successful mass-market computer, it remains in production for 16 years.

1980 The company's second computer, the Apple III, is launched but proves a commercial failure, plagued by faulty construction.

1983 Apple launches the Lisa, the first personal computer controlled by on-screen icons activated at the click of a mouse. But it also proves unsuccessful.

1984 Apple launches the Macintosh computer, which wins rave reviews but suffers disappointing sales.

1985 Apple closes half its six factories, sheds 1,200 employees (a fifth of its staff) and declares its first quarterly loss. Jobs loses a boardroom battle against John Sculley and is forced out of the company.

1986 Jobs buys the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, the company owned by Star Wars director George Lucas, and founds what would become Pixar Animation Studios.

1987 Macintosh II is launched in 1987.

1988 Jobs founds NeXT Computer, but it was not a financial success, selling only 50,000 computers.

1995 With Jobs as its chief executive, Pixar releases Toy Story, the first full-length computer animated film, which is a worldwide box office smash.

1996 Apple buys NeXT for $429m (£277m) and uses Jobs' technology to build the next generation of its own software.

1997 Jobs becomes Apple's interim chief executive.

1998 The iMac is launched, a self-contained computer and monitor. Its design eclipses the clunky build of Apple's competitors.

2001 The first iPod goes on sale in October and proves a huge success.

2003 The iTunes music store is launched in April.

2007 The first iPhone is launched. Jobs decides to drop the computer part of Apple's name.

2010 The iPad is launched in April and 3m of the devices are sold in 80 days. Nearly 15m iPads are sold worldwide by the end of the year. Apple's annual sales reach $65bn – a huge rise from $8bn in 2000.

2011 Apple continues to roll out new products to great demand including the iPad 2 and iPhone 4.

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House where Steve Jobs started Apple designated as historic site

Let’s face it, significant events rarely occur inside garages. The little brick or wooden structure attached to the side of a house more often than not serves simply as a place to leave the car overnight or keep a few bikes.

Not so the garage at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, for this was part of the childhood home of late Apple boss Steve Jobs. The tech guru not only spent a lot time in his garage, he also did something very special while inside.

It was there, way back in 1976, that Jobs and best buddy Steve Wozniak bish-bash-and-boshed together the very first Apple computer, a machine that despite not winning any awards for looks, marked the beginning of a revolution in the personal computer industry and gave birth to one of the most successful companies on the planet.

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The designation stipulates that any proposed renovations or repairs to the home must first be green-lighted by the commission, which means a desire on behalf of the current owner to, for example, add a faux wood exterior to the building, or perhaps paint it pink, could be met with some resistance.

Incidentally, the home belongs to Patricia Jobs, Steve’s sister. According to the Mercury News, her consent wasn’t required for the designation, which was announced earlier this week following a two-year review by the commission.

Significant events

Once Steve and Steve had finished building the first Apple I computer in the Crist Drive garage, they built 49 more, followed by a load of Apple II machines, before expanding their business by renting out office space in Cupertino.

The commission noted in its evaluation that the address is also where Jobs courted early Apple investors – Chuck Peddle of Commodore Computer and Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital among them.

“Significant events took place at the subject property,” Commissioner Sapna Marfatia wrote in the evaluation [ pdf ], adding, “Steve Jobs is considered a genius who blended technology and creativity to invent and market a product which dramatically changed many industries. His influence is expected to be felt by multiple generations forthcoming.”

More recently, the address has been used as a filming location for Jobs , the 2013 movie about the life of the late tech guru, while the old Apple I computers have been selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions around the world.

As for the company itself, things don’t seem to have turned out too badly.

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When it was all just starting to happen for him in 1977, around the time the venture capital boys began beating a path to his door, Steve Jobs would greet them at the house on Crist Drive wearing his red turtleneck — the one his mom had washed so many times the color had faded to pink. Neighbors suspected the young man might be slightly deranged.

Patty was one of Steve’s many helpers, building circuit boards for him in their living room as early as 1975. “I’d get yelled at if I bent a prong,” she recalls.

“I remember … he came running across the street to say, ‘We got color!’ ” Tankersley said. “We weren’t particularly interested and didn’t know what the heck he was doing in there.”

As it turned out, Jobs was inventing the future.

“I was thinking more of a shrine,” she said, “or at least a sign saying, ‘Steve Jobs grew up here.’ “

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The Apple Museum, which houses a massive collection of the company's products in Prague, has revealed plans to build an interactive replica of the garage where Steve Jobs started his company.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company in the former's garage on this day in 1976. The space has since been designated an historical site by the Los Altos Historical Commission in 2013.

The museum has been temporarily closed since March, due to the coronavirus pandemic, but hopes to reopen soon.

Speaking to Business Insider, CEO Irena Jiroušková said the new site would incorporate augmented reality technology to give visitors a sense of "what it was like for Steve in the very early days of Apple".

Opened in 2016, the Apple Museum offers an inside look at the history of one of the world's biggest tech companies. For Apple fans in Europe whose US travel plans have been upended by the coronavirus, this might just be the next best thing.

One of the first things you see is a portrait of Steve Jobs made from the components of six iMac G3s — a line of Apple computers from 1998-2003

The museum is littered with visual and audio tributes to Jobs.

While walking around a display Macs through the ages, visitors will hear his keynote speeches at Macworld conventions from years past echo around them.

"We really want people to understand what it was he was driving at," said Jiroušková.

"He wanted to change the world."

The museum's owners even commissioned a local artist to recreate Banksy's 'The Son of a Migrant from Syria'

Based on the original, unveiled by Banksy in the Calais refugee camp in 2015, the artwork depicts the late Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs—the son of a Syrian migrant to the United States—as a traveling migrant.

Speaking in a rare public statement at the time, Banksy said: "We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources, but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant.

"Apple is the world's most profitable company, it pays over $7bn a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs."

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Speaking to Business Insider, CEO Jiroušková said the museum's roots were in the owner's collection of Apple goods.

"He was a huge fan of Apple and, to be honest, I think his wife was probably getting annoyed at him having all this stuff lying around the house.

"One day he decided: 'OK, I'll put it in a museum."

European entrepreneurs and Apple execs are apparently keen visitors

"Our most popular clientele are men, usually in their 30s, I think," says Jiroušková.

"I think many of them are fascinated by the legacy Mr Jobs built for himself, and many of them are inspired to think what they could do to change the world."

She says a number of Apple executives have even visited from California in the past – but prefers not to name names.

"They are very kind to us," she laughs.

The museum says the new garage installation will open in April

"We bought up some building space next door, and construction is already underway," she added.

"Our plan is to open in April, with a ready-to-go augmented reality guide to walk you through one of the key sites in Mr Jobs' life.

"We think it's going to make our museum even more appealing to families and younger children."

Learn more about the Apple Museum on its website here .

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Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

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Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

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Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

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Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

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Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

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A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

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