The family home where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer may soon become a protected historical site . The seven-member Los Altos Historical Commission has scheduled a `` historic property evaluation '' for the single-story , ranch-style house on Monday . If the designation is ultimately approved , then the house on 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos , California , will have to be preserved . The faux religion of Steve Jobs . Jobs moved to the house with his foster parents as a 7th grader , and lived there through high school . In the attached garage , he and Steve Wozniak toiled to assemble the first 50 Apple 1 computers . The pair sold them to Paul Terrell 's Byte Shop in Mountain View for $ 500 each . How Steve Jobs ' legacy has changed . Nine months later , in 1977 , Apple Computer Co. was formally established and moved its operations to nearby Cupertino . One of the original computers later sold at an auction for $ 231,000 . And Jobs went on to become a visionary who changed the face of computing . `` Steve Jobs is considered a genius who blended technology and creativity to invent and market a product which dramatically changed six industries -- personal computers , animated movies , music , phones , tablet computing and digital publishing , '' according to the property evaluation . `` His influence is expected to be felt by multiple generations forthcoming . '' The three-bedroom , two-bath house was built in 1952 and is valued at $ 1.5 million , according to real-estate website Zillow . Steve Jobs ' yacht revealed .
Steve Jobs grew up in a single-story , ranch-style house in Los Altos , California . He was the son of an engineer and his wife were both teachers at Stanford University.