How Apple moved into its first official headquarters

Today, you can find Apple not only in Cupertino, California - branches of its offices and branded brick-and-mortar stores are located almost all over the world. But it wasn't always like that. In late January 1978, Apple was still more or less a "garage startup" with a largely uncertain future. But he managed to get the first "real" offices, and thus also the official seat for his growing production and business activities.

Beginnings in the garage? Not quite.

A full fifteen years before relocating to the legendary mansion on One Infinite Loop. and nearly forty years before the new Apple Park opened, the offices at 10260 Bandley Drive (also known as "Bandley 1") became Apple's home. It was the first purpose-built headquarters of the newly founded company, which was later to revolutionize the world of computer technology. A number of people have linked the origins of the Cupertino company to the garage of Steve Jobs' parents, but Steve Wozniak says that only a relatively small part of the work was actually done in the legendary garage. According to Wozniak, there were no real designs, no prototypes, no product planning or production per se. "The garage didn't serve any particular purpose, rather it was something for us where we felt at home," said the Apple co-founder.

Warehouse or tennis court?

When Apple "grew" out of its parent's garage and began to officially become a company, it moved to Stevens Creek Boulevard, in a building nicknamed "Good Earth". In 1978, after the release of the Apple II computer, the company could afford its own purpose-built headquarters on Bandley Drive in Cupertino, California. As you can see in the period sketch in the article (drawn by Chris Espinosa, a longtime Apple employee), the building consisted of four departments - marketing, engineering/technical, manufacturing, and last but not least, a huge empty space with no official use. In a sketch, Espinosa jokingly suggested that it could be used as a tennis court, but in the end the space became Apple's first warehouse.

In the picture we can also see a room called Advent. These were showrooms, equipped with a projection TV at a price of 3000 dollars. Steve Jobs was assigned his own office - allegedly because no one wanted to share workspace with him. Mike Markkula, an avid smoker, was in a similar situation.

Of course, it didn't stay with Bandley 1. Over time, Apple's headquarters grew to Bandley 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, with the company naming its other headquarters not by location, but by the order in which it purchased the buildings, so Bandley 2 is located between Bandley 4 and Bandley 5 According to the AppleWorld server, one of the buildings now serves as a law office, one as a United Systems Technology store, and another as a Cupertino driving school building.

Source: Cult of Mac