From the history of Apple: Apple moves into its own offices

Nowadays, we have the headquarters of Apple primarily associated with Apple Park, but this was not always the case. In today's installment of our regular "history" series, we look back at the time Apple relocated to Bandley 1. It was late January 1978, and Apple Computer was still in its infancy in a way.

At the same time, the fledgling computer company was able to arrange its first "custom-built" office and thus obtain the right premises for its growing activities. A full 15 years before the creation of One Infinite Loop and nearly 40 years before Apple Park's stunning "spaceship" landed, 10260 Bandley Drive — also known as "Bandley 1" — becomes the fledgling company's first purpose-built permanent headquarters. According to Silicon Valley folklore, Apple's first headquarters grew out of Steve Jobs' parents' garage at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California. However, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claims that very little has actually been done at this legendary location. According to Jobs, there was no design, manufacturing or product planning in the legendary garage. "The garage served no other purpose than to make us feel at home." Jobs once said in this context.

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After Apple officially formed as a company, it moved to 20863 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino, California, and in early 1978—shortly after the release of the Apple II computer—the company moved into its first custom-built headquarters on Bandley Drive in Cupertino. The author of the design of the building was Chris Espinosa, who laid out the headquarters in four quadrants: marketing/administrative, technical, manufacturing, and a large empty space with no official use, at least initially. Later, this space, which Espinosa jokingly referred to as "tennis courts" in the first design, became Apple's first warehouse.

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In the room marked "Advent" on the plan, a huge modern projection television was placed, which even then cost 3 thousand dollars. Jobs allegedly got his own office because no one wanted to share it with him. Mike Markkula also got his own office because of his avid smoking. Apple's headquarters in Bandley eventually grew to include the Bandley 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 buildings, which Apple did not name by location, but by the order in which they were acquired.