Title:
Steve Jobs Personally Owned Hewlett-Packard Printed Circuit Board Component - Preserved at the Jobs Family Los Altos "Apple Garage" Property - Direct John Chovanec Family Provenance

Description:
An evocative piece of early Silicon Valley hardware with direct provenance to Steve Jobs and the Jobs family home in Los Altos, California: a vintage Hewlett-Packard printed circuit board component identified as HP part no. 05257-60066.

The narrow green fiberglass board carries a series of gold-colored plated contacts and through-holes, with the Hewlett-Packard logo and markings "A 1307" and "05257-60066" visible on one face. The reverse displays the corresponding contact and connection pattern. As pictured, the component remains in overall very good to fine condition, with light age and handling wear consistent with a vintage electronic component preserved outside of an assembled device.

Importantly, this piece should not be represented as a component of an Apple-1 or Apple II computer. Rather, its significance lies in its provenance and its connection to the electronics environment surrounding Steve Jobs. The accompanying certificate identifies it as a Hewlett-Packard printed circuit board that was personally owned by Jobs and stored at his family's Los Altos home, the property associated with Apple's formative period. The certificate describes boards of this general type as providing conductive connections between electronic components or assemblies and notes their use in electronic test equipment, instrumentation, and computing hardware.

The documented provenance supplied with the artifact traces it from Steve Jobs, to the Jobs family home in Los Altos, to Jobs's stepbrother John Chovanec, and subsequently to the collection from which it was offered. The accompanying illustrated certificate is signed by John Reznikoff, President of University Archives and identified on the document as a PSA and JSA authenticator, and Luke Pascal, President of Historical Autographs Gallery and identified as an autograph and relic expert at University Archives.

Historical Context:
This otherwise modest electronic component acquires considerable historical interest through the environment in which it was preserved. Steve Jobs grew up immersed in the emerging electronics culture of Silicon Valley. In a Smithsonian oral history, Jobs recalled that his father, Paul Jobs, gave him space at his workbench, taught him how to build and take things apart, and introduced him to the rudiments of electronics. Jobs also specifically remembered his early fascination with Hewlett-Packard, including a neighborhood HP engineer who encouraged his interest and his later encounter with an HP 9100A desktop computer.

That Hewlett-Packard connection is especially interesting in the context of the present artifact. Steve Wozniak was himself an HP employee during the period in which he developed the computer that became the Apple-1. The Smithsonian dates Wozniak's Apple-1 design to 1975 and explains that its reception among members of the Homebrew Computer Club helped prompt Wozniak and Jobs to establish Apple and manufacture the machine.

The Jobs family residence in Los Altos subsequently became inseparable from Apple's origin story. The Smithsonian describes the family's garage as an iconic location in the history of invention and notes its association with Jobs and Wozniak's early work developing and selling the Apple personal computer. The Apple-1 itself was a remarkably stripped-down machine: the Smithsonian notes that it was sold as a single board and required the purchaser to provide such necessities as a keyboard, display, and power supply.

According to the Chovanec family provenance supplied with this artifact, John Chovanec became Steve Jobs's stepbrother after John's mother, Marilyn, married Steve's adoptive father, Paul Jobs. Following Paul Jobs's death in 1993, Steve helped address his father's possessions at the Los Altos residence. Chovanec states that numerous objects associated with Steve's youth and the family's electronics environment remained at the property and that, with Steve's knowledge and permission, John ultimately retained material that Steve did not wish to reclaim. Chovanec preserved such material for decades.

That provenance is central to understanding this piece. It is not presented as an Apple-manufactured circuit board, nor is there evidence in the material supplied that it was installed in an Apple computer. Instead, it survives as a Hewlett-Packard electronic component personally associated, according to its documented provenance, with Steve Jobs and preserved at the family property connected to Apple's beginnings. It therefore offers a tangible glimpse into the broader world of electronic parts, test equipment, experimentation, and hands-on engineering that surrounded the birth of the personal-computer industry.

Authentication & Encapsulation:
The artifact is accompanied by an illustrated Historical Autographs Gallery provenance certificate identifying the component as a Steve Jobs personally owned Hewlett-Packard printed circuit board, part no. 05257-60066, stored at the Jobs family's "Apple Garage" property in Los Altos, California. The certificate states the provenance as: Steve Jobs; Steve Jobs's Apple Garage at the Los Altos family home; Steve Jobs's stepbrother; and the subsequent auction offering.

The certificate is signed by John Reznikoff, President of University Archives and identified on the document as a PSA and JSA authenticator, and Luke Pascal, President of Historical Autographs Gallery and identified on the document as an autograph and relic expert at University Archives. No separate PSA, BAS, or JSA certification number is visible in the supplied images, and the electronic component itself is not shown encapsulated.

• Additional Documentation & Provenance: At buyer's request, Historical Autographs Gallery will include an additional "Historical Autographs Gallery Certificate" signed by our company founder Luke Pascal at no cost.

Closing Appeal:
Far more personal than a generic example of period electronics, this Hewlett-Packard circuit component is compelling because of its documented path through the Jobs family home. Its HP markings also provide an appropriate physical reminder of the larger Silicon Valley electronics culture in which Jobs and Wozniak developed their interests before Apple transformed personal computing.

For the collector of Steve Jobs, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Valley, or early personal-computing history, the piece represents an unusual category of relic: not a finished Apple product, but a surviving piece of the technological environment associated with Jobs's formative years and preserved at the Los Altos property so closely linked with Apple's beginnings. Its direct family provenance through John Chovanec and accompanying signed documentation distinguish it from an otherwise ordinary vintage electronic component and give it a particularly intimate connection to the material culture surrounding one of the defining stories in modern technological history.

Shipping Notice:
For insurance purposes, items sold over $600 may require signature confirmation upon delivery. Higher-value items, likely over $1,500, are shipped via FedEx 2-Day with Direct Signature Confirmation. FedEx provides the most flexibility when requiring a signature, allowing you to make special delivery requests directly through their tracking system. This ensures both security and convenience for the buyer.