“Intrigued by the gutsy youngster, Hewlett spoke with him for about 20 minutes, and he made sure Jobs got the parts he needed for the project. That call led to a summer job at H-P, where the future co-founder of Apple Inc. worked at the Cupertino, Calif., campus,” Poletti reports. “Years later, Jobs’s friend and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak would also work for H-P. It was while he was a young engineer working on scientific calculators that he invented, in his own time, what became the Apple I computer. H-P turned down Wozniak’s invention, which he was obligated to offer to his employer first.”
“Jobs has returned to his old stomping grounds, with Apple’s purchase of a large chunk of the old H-P Cupertino campus. In 2006, Apple confirmed that it had purchased some of the land, and the company just completed a deal for a 100-acre portion of the space,” Poletti reports. “It’s a deal that has both companies turning full circle on their storied pasts — and it marks a shift of power in Silicon Valley.”
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