The commission has been eyeballing the property for historic preservation for the past two years. It's not the architecture that makes it special, according to an evaluation prepared by Commissioner Sapna Marfatia. It's what transpired there in the latter half of the 1970s.
With help from Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and his sister Patricia Jobs, Steve Jobs assembled his first 50 Apple 1 computers at the one-story home and sold them to Paul Terrell's Byte Shop in Mountain View for $500 each. Another 50 were built for the Homebrew Computer Club.
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