Back in 1978, an upstart company called Apple Computer moved into its new headquarters at 10260 Bandley Drive in Cupertino, California — a building soon to be known as “Bandley 1.” One of Apple’s first employees, Chris Espinosa, sketched out a floor plan of the Bandley 1 offices and labs in the new building at the time.
A copy of this historic Apple document recently showed up on Espinosa’s website.
Bandley 1 floor plan rediscovered
According to Espinosa, he made the drawing on January 30, 1978. He notes:
The building had four quadrants: Marketing/Admin, Engineering, Manufacturing, and a large empty space that we did not know what to do with when we moved in. That’s why it’s labeled “Tennis courts?” Needless to say that within two months it was our warehouse, and within six we had leased a building across the street and the one next door to expand into.
The “Advent” room was a demo space containing a $3,000 projection TV that Apple execs used to impress VIPs. According to a comment on the original posting, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs enjoyed a private office because nobody wanted to share one with him. Mike Markkula, Apple’s original angel investor and second CEO, scored his own because he occasionally smoked cigarettes at work.
I wonder how many Bandley 1–sized spaces would fit in Apple’s new mothership campus planned for Cupertino? Espinosa provided a high-res downloadable PDF copy of the Bandley 1 floor plan.
Adam Rosen is an Apple certified IT consultant specializing in Macintosh systems new and old. He lives in Boston with two cats and too many possessions. In addition to membership in the Cult of Mac, Adam has written for Low End Mac and is curator of the Vintage Mac Museum. He also enjoys a good libation.
2 responses to “Blast From The Past – Floor Plan Of Apple’s Original Bandley 1 Headquarters”
It would be nice if somewhere in that mothership was an Apple archive/museum to house and display all these kind of things for future generations.
It looks like Bandley 1 (lower left corner of this Google© map) would fit inside the Corporate Auditorium (shown side-by-side inside blue oval below the mothership).