2017 is going to be a big year of anniversaries for Apple.

40 years: Apple II
30 years: Mac II, HyperCard
20 years: G3 line, OS8
10 years: iPhone

But let’s start with the most important one:

January 3, 1977, Apple’s date of incorporation as Apple Computer, Inc., and its first offices.

40 years ago tonight, Woz got the key to 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite B3-C, which we had leased for the first Apple office.

He called me and [Randy Wigginton] and invited us to come over. The room was mostly empty. Carpeting on the left side, linoleum on the right.

The only thing in the room was a lot of Bell 2565HK five-line phones. They were wired to a Centrex system in the PO.

Woz, of course, knew all about these phones but had never had a Centrex of his own to play with. So he invented a game for us.

We’d each take a phone and start with it on-hook, then try to dial each others’ extension. You have to hand up to redial, leaving you open.

If you got rung 5 times you were out. We played that game for an hour, then went to Bob’s Big Boy down the street.


TWEETED TODAY BY APPLE EMPLOYEE #8, CHRIS ESPINOSA, WHO JOINED APPLE AT THE AGE OF 14.

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