If you’re in Los Altos, CA, you can stop by 2206 Crist Drive and take a look at the childhood home of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs.
2206 Crist Drive, Los Altos CA 94024.
The residence was just named a “historic resource” by the Los Altos Historical Commission.
Why?
Aside from Jobs just living there, he also built the first 100 Apple computers right in the garage.
Steve Jobs' childhood home.
The first 50 he sold to Paul Terrell’s Byte Shop in Mountain View for $500. (The originals are now worth much more than that. One sold for $213,000 at a 2010 auction.)
According to the Commission’s property evaluation, in the same home, first investors such as Chuck Peddle of Commodore Computer and Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital visited the property for demonstrations of the first Apple computers.
According to the evaluation, the property is so monumental because it “represents the fourth wave (of progress in Silicon Valley) where youngsters working in their respective garages were experiments with electronics and the new computer industry as tools for human use.”
The single-story ranch-style house is very different from the ones that succeeded it.
Jobs’ lived in the Woodside Mansion for a few years in the 1980s.
The Woodside Mansion. 460 Mountain Home Road Woodside, CA 94062. (Image via allaboutStevejobs.com)
Jobs purchased his Palo Alto home in the mid-1990s. He lived there for almost 20 years until his death in 2011.
2101 Waverley Street Palo Alto, CA 94301. (Image via allaboutStevejobs.com)
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