In
an interview with Businesswick magazine on Thursday
, Steve Wozniak questioned one of the main myths of the Silicon Valley origin: Jobs’s legendary garage, in which Apple was born. Wozniak said that their Apple I computer was not designed at all: he did all the work in his dice at the Hewlett-Packard office in Cupertino.
The garage is something like a myth. We did not design, did not model, did not prototype, did not plan any products there. There was no production. The garage served us as nothing more than a place where we could feel at home.
- Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple

However, news sites seem to be overwhelmed with headlines like "Steve Wozniak called the legendary Apple garage a myth."
If you examine the history of the creation of Apple I more attentively, you can understand that Wozniak most likely speaks about the development of the first Apple I prototypes in 1975, which, as it was, until now, was collected in the bedroom and garage of Steve Jobs:
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They sold all their valuables (Wozniak, for example, sold the HP scientific calculator, and Jobs a Volkswagen van), saved $ 1,300 and collected the first prototypes in Jobs’s bedroom, and later, when all the free space was taken, they moved to Jobs’s garage. Their first computer was a true engineering marvel in the context of the 1975 computing technology.
- Wikipedia
However, the team that assembled the first commercial batch of Apple I in the spring of 1976 could hardly fit into the Woz carton at HP - especially since by that time he had already quit. So this part of the story about Steve Jobs's garage should be true: if his house and garage were not the site of the Apple I invention, then it became his first manufactory.
And, of course, the story should be very grateful to Hewlett-Packard for letting Waz to do this project completely disinterestedly:
Hewlett Packard Company had the right to everything that Steve Wozniak invented, including the Apple I computer, the production of which Wozniak himself offered them to set up several times. However, they simply “let go” of the mad inventor with his “toy computer”.
- Hiktames
Moreover, now, according to Wozniak, it turns out that they not only had the right to invent it, but also provided all the conditions for its creation.
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