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Archive of Steve Jobs's personally-owned miscellaneous electronic parts from the Apple-1 era and beyond, long stored at the famous 'Apple Garage' property—his family's home in Los Altos, California. Includes:
- a vintage plastic parts drawer organizer containing various computer parts, including a variety of chips by Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Raytheon, Motorola, Signetics, and American Microsystems (two white ceramic-and-gold “zebra” integrated circuits), seven-segment red LED displays (HP 5082-7730), and assorted chip sockets.
- a Webster Tobacco Co. cigar box filled with a variety of switches—including toggle and momentary varieties—most contained labeled component bags. The box also contains an enameled Apple Computer rainbow-logo pendant and a sterling silver St. Christopher medal.
- four 'breadboard' type circuits, a hand-wired socket set with counter input, a PCB with four-digit display, an experimental knob device, and five unpopulated printed circuit boards, two by Douglas Electronics and one by Hewlett-Packard.
- a variety of spare components including a heatsink, a Mallory Type FP capacitor, Sprague KoolOhm resistors, handmade resistor jumpers on alligator clips, Cinch sockets, various small electronic components such as resistors and capacitors.
- a number of non-Apple keyboard caps labeled "Comptec," "BL WA," "NN WA," "RH WA," "RA WA," "Shift Lock," "Return," "Shift," "Reset," "Char Insert," "Step," "Enter," and others.
- two Kurz-Kasch probes designed for computer testing, including an LP-520 logic probe and an HL-582 in-circuit digital logic stimulator.
In overall very good to fine condition. As spare parts, test instruments, and loose electronic components contemporary to the formative Apple-1 and Apple II eras, this archive offers a remarkable behind-the-scenes glimpse into the practical world from which Apple emerged. Preserved for decades at the Jobs family’s Los Altos home—the legendary ‘Apple Garage’ property—these parts evoke the hands-on experimentation, improvisation, and technical resourcefulness that shaped the company’s earliest products. From logic probes and breadboard circuits to ICs, switches, resistors, display modules, and keyboard caps, the collection reflects the working vocabulary of the electronics hobbyist culture that gave rise to the personal computer revolution.
Provenance: from the personal collection of John Chovanec, stepbrother of Steve Jobs.
