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Unique archive of Steve Jobs's personally-owned spare Apple-1 components and miscellaneous electronic parts, long stored in the famous 'Apple Garage'—the attached garage at his family's home in Los Altos—inside a package from Ewing-Foley, a local electronics distributor/manufacturer’s representative. The box measures 9.25˝ x 8˝ x 2˝ and carries a label from Ewing-Foley, Inc., addressed to "Steve Jobs, 11161 Christ [sic] Dr., Los Altos, Ca. 94022," and postmarked October 11, 1975.
Parts affiliated with the Apple-1 include: a total of 31 ceramic disc capacitors (".1 BEL"); five Texas Instruments chip sockets; two MPS3704 transistors; two six-pin power connectors; and a four-pin video connector.
Other parts include: a small bag of Motorola chips, with attached slip ostensibly labeled in Steve Jobs's own hand, "Clock driver, Bus driver"; two gray-and-white HP integrated circuit ships (1820-0633 and 1820-0634); three digital displays; two prototyping boards with soldered jumpers; a couple of Sprague capacitors; heatsink parts; some resistors; and a variety of other chips and sockets.
In overall very good to fine condition, with overall wear and one split corner to the box lid.
Ewing-Foley's offices were about five miles from the Jobs' family home in Los Altos. In 2023, the Los Altos Town Crier published a piece on one of the company's founders, Dick Foley, who recalled 'donating a couple of sample toggle switches to a young man named Steve Jobs, who wandered into his office one day when he was building one of his early computers.'
This remarkable assortment provides a rare glimpse into the humble, hands-on origins of Apple Computer, when Jobs and Wozniak were sourcing components locally and assembling their first breakthrough machines by hand. As spare parts contemporary to the formative Apple-1 era—and kept for decades within the very garage that would become synonymous with the dawn of Silicon Valley—these items embody the experimental spirit and resourceful ingenuity that defined Apple’s earliest days. With several components aligning directly with known Apple-1 specifications, and others reflecting Jobs’s broad sweep of tinkering and prototyping interests, the archive offers both technical significance and exceptional provenance, firmly rooted in the mythology of Apple’s creation story.
Provenance: from the personal collection of John Chovanec, stepbrother of Steve Jobs.
