Steve Jobs Personally Owned Computer Component Long Stored at the Iconic Apple Garage
Steve Jobs
Los Altos, CA, n.d.
Steve Jobs Personally Owned Computer Component Long Stored at the Iconic Apple Garage
Relic
From the iconic Apple garage. A remarkable relic from the formative electronics environment surrounding Steve Jobs and the Jobs family home in Los Altos, California: a vintage Cornell-Dubilier "Budroc" paper tubular capacitor personally owned by Jobs and preserved at the property famously associated with Apple's beginnings. The cylindrical, paper-covered electronic component is marked "BUDROC .047 MFD. 600 V.D.C." and retains its metal leads, which have been bent closely around the body. The cream-colored exterior exhibits expected age, surface soiling, discoloration, abrasions, and handling wear, giving the component an appropriately untouched appearance consistent with a vintage electronic part preserved outside of an assembled device. The capacitor measures approximately 5 x 1.5 inches.
The provenance traces the capacitor from Steve Jobs to the Jobs family's Los Altos "Apple Garage" property, then to Jobs's stepbrother, and ultimately to the subsequent auction offering.
Accompanied by a certificate of provenance signed by John Reznikoff, President of University Archives and Luke Pascal, President of Historical Autographs Gallery, and autograph and relic expert at University Archives, identifying the artifact as a "Steve Jobs Personally-Owned Computer Component From the Birthplace of Apple Computer," stored at the "Apple Garage" in Los Altos, California.
The Los Altos family garage occupies a prominent place in the history and popular memory of Apple. The Smithsonian describes the "Apple garage" at Jobs's parents' home as an iconic place of invention associated with Jobs and Steve Wozniak's early efforts to develop and sell the Apple personal computer and with the formation of Apple Computer in 1976. In a 1995 oral-history interview preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Jobs recalled that his adoptive father, Paul Jobs, maintained a workbench in the family garage and gave the young Steve his own portion of it, teaching him to use tools, construct objects, take things apart, and understand the rudiments of electronics. Jobs also recalled growing up surrounded by engineers in Silicon Valley and learning electronics from a Hewlett-Packard engineer who lived nearby.
The technological setting was one in which individual electronic components could play an unusually visible role in experimentation and computer construction. Wozniak designed the Apple I in 1975, and its enthusiastic reception among members of Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club helped lead Wozniak and Jobs to establish Apple and manufacture the computer. The Smithsonian notes that the Apple I was sold as a single assembled circuit board rather than as a complete consumer system; users still needed to supply such essentials as a keyboard, video display, and power supply.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
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Steve Jobs
Los Altos, CA, n.d.
Steve Jobs Personally Owned Computer Component Long Stored at the Iconic Apple Garage
Relic
From the iconic Apple garage. A remarkable relic from the formative electronics environment surrounding Steve Jobs and the Jobs family home in Los Altos, California: a vintage Cornell-Dubilier "Budroc" paper tubular capacitor personally owned by Jobs and preserved at the property famously associated with Apple's beginnings. The cylindrical, paper-covered electronic component is marked "BUDROC .047 MFD. 600 V.D.C." and retains its metal leads, which have been bent closely around the body. The cream-colored exterior exhibits expected age, surface soiling, discoloration, abrasions, and handling wear, giving the component an appropriately untouched appearance consistent with a vintage electronic part preserved outside of an assembled device. The capacitor measures approximately 5 x 1.5 inches.
The provenance traces the capacitor from Steve Jobs to the Jobs family's Los Altos "Apple Garage" property, then to Jobs's stepbrother, and ultimately to the subsequent auction offering.
Accompanied by a certificate of provenance signed by John Reznikoff, President of University Archives and Luke Pascal, President of Historical Autographs Gallery, and autograph and relic expert at University Archives, identifying the artifact as a "Steve Jobs Personally-Owned Computer Component From the Birthplace of Apple Computer," stored at the "Apple Garage" in Los Altos, California.
The Los Altos family garage occupies a prominent place in the history and popular memory of Apple. The Smithsonian describes the "Apple garage" at Jobs's parents' home as an iconic place of invention associated with Jobs and Steve Wozniak's early efforts to develop and sell the Apple personal computer and with the formation of Apple Computer in 1976. In a 1995 oral-history interview preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Jobs recalled that his adoptive father, Paul Jobs, maintained a workbench in the family garage and gave the young Steve his own portion of it, teaching him to use tools, construct objects, take things apart, and understand the rudiments of electronics. Jobs also recalled growing up surrounded by engineers in Silicon Valley and learning electronics from a Hewlett-Packard engineer who lived nearby.
The technological setting was one in which individual electronic components could play an unusually visible role in experimentation and computer construction. Wozniak designed the Apple I in 1975, and its enthusiastic reception among members of Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club helped lead Wozniak and Jobs to establish Apple and manufacture the computer. The Smithsonian notes that the Apple I was sold as a single assembled circuit board rather than as a complete consumer system; users still needed to supply such essentials as a keyboard, video display, and power supply.
This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.
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