The garage where Steve Jobs made the first Apple computers has been nominated as a possible historic site.
The home in Los Altos, California where the tech legend first launched his computer company is being evaluated as a historic property by the local council.
The application argues that the ranch-style house is significant because it is in 'the neighorhood which fostered innovation and creativity'.
Unexpected landmark: The boyhood home where Steve Jobs grew up is up for historic status.
Starting point: Jobs and Steve Wozniak (pictured here in 1976) built their first 50 computers in the garage
CNN reports that if approved by the seven-person committee, the house will have to be preserved and kept in it's current condition as a tribute to the deceased former inhabitant.
Steve Jobs moved into the house with his family when he was in 7th grade and went on to create personal computers in the garage.
The garage was the spot where Jobs and his friends Steve Wozniak and Bill Fernandez worked on the first iteration of a computer. In the official biography of the Apple founder, Jobs said that he and Wozniak built their first 50 computers in the garage.
A similar house was used in the filming of the latest film about Jobs' life. The actual three-bedroom home on Crist Drive is valued at $1.5million and is not for sale. While the push for the entrepreneur's boyhood home has been logged down by bureaucratic paperwork for the past two years, Jobs left some of his own historical mementos behind well before he died in 2011.
Just last week, a time capsule that he buried at a conference in Aspen, Colorado in 1983 was discovered and it contained the very first commercially-available computer mouse that his team had created.
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