By now, we've pretty much all heard the story of how Apple got started, right?

As the tale goes, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs built the first 50 Apple-1 computers in Jobs's family garage in Los Altos, Calif. back in 1976. It's a story that's been repeated over, and over, and over. But, as is so often the case with stories that get told and re-told, it's not entirely accurate.

Turns out, Apple didn't really get started in a garage. In an interview with Bloomberg published Thursday, Wozniak shot down the old legend.

"The garage is a bit of a myth," he said. "We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there. The garage didn't serve much purpose, except it was something for us to feel was our home."

Instead, Woz said he actually did most of the design and manufacturing work from his desk at Hewlett-Packard, where he still worked at the time.

"The work was being done—soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables—at my cubicle at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino [Calif.]," he said. "That was an incredible time. It let me do a lot of side projects, and it was five years to the summer of '75, when I built the Apple computer, the first one. The next summer I built the Apple II computer."

Meanwhile, despite having "no money," Woz and Jobs knew they were onto something.

"We knew we had a revolution. Everyone who joined Apple, this was the greatest thing in their life," Wozniak said.

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