Celebrity homes: steve jobs childhood home given historic status

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The ranch-style property where the Apple founder built his first computers, located in Los Altos, is where the company’s legend first began. And now, the town’s officials have named it a “historic resource”, reports the San Jose Mercury News.

The vote to grant the status to 2066 Crist Drive was unanimous, according to the newspaper, following a two-year effort by the Historic Commission to preserve the home as it is. Chairman Frank Bishop praised the decision, which included an evaluation of the property.

“The documentation looks very complete -- better than some of the books as far as accuracy goes," he commented.

The home is where Jobs built the first 100 Apple 1 computers, with help from co-founder Steve Wozniak and sister Patricia Jobs. The first 50 were sold to a shop in Mountain View for $500 apiece, while the rest were put together for friends in the Homebrew Computer Club.

"I'd get yelled at if I bent a prong," Patricia Jobs said in an interview with The Daily News.