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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had barely moved out of the Jobs' family garage to the company's first official corporate address, 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd., (Building 3, Suite C) in Cupertino, Calif. The pair had successfully begun shipping their first computer, a naked circuit board called Apple I. It had neither a keyboard nor a screen, and functioned more as part of a kit that computer hobbyists could build into something more useful, if they knew what they were doing. Two early Apple employees, Bob Martinengo and Mark Johnson, spoke to Business Insider about what it was like working with the two Steves back in the days when nobody knew what Apple was. The images are remarkable because they show life at Apple before the period when everyone realized the company was going to change the world. Note that in this photo, Jobs appears to be arguing with Mike Scott, the first president of the company, who had been brought in to keep a leash on Jobs. Mike Markulla was the venture capitalist who provided Apple's first proper funding and installed real management. An integrated home computer with a keyboard and screen, that anybody could use. Here's another shot of the crew on the Apple II team, with the product in the background on a set of racks: Incidentally, Apple occupied the adjacent office space to the right of suite C. A smaller office space where Bill Fernandez designed circuit board layouts. "In the short time I was there it went from a goofy startup to a full-blown production line," Johnson says. [...] Jobs changed the company's logo to an Apple silhouette filled with a rainbow. Johnson says, Steve Jobs commissioned a local shop to create an embroidered patch to commemorate the new corporate logo.  Mike Markkula and I went to Macy's and bought white sweaters for everyone to wear at the show and had the logo put on the breast of the sweater.


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