Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, has some history with the parcel of land that the iPad maker is looking to build its new "spaceship" headquarters on -- he used to work there as an employee of Hewlett-Packard.

Wozniak commented on a Technology blog post on Wednesday about Jobs' boyhood connection to HP and the 155-acre plot Apple is looking to build on. Jobs idolized HP co-founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, who at one time owned the site, and at the age of 13, Jobs had a summer job with HP (in the company's Santa Clara office).

"This land is also where our small calculator division of HP, APD, was," Wozniak wrote in a comment on the Technology blog. "It's where almost all the design, prototyping andtesting was done (at night) to create the Apple I and Apple ][ computers."

Wozniak worked at HP and built some of the earliest personal computers with Jobs and other Silicon Valley engineers as a member of the now-defunct Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto.

In 1976, Wozniak left his job at HP, while Jobs and his friend Ron Wayne left their jobs at Atari to start Apple Computer out of Jobs' parents' garage in Los Altos.

The comment from Woz, as Wozniak is nicknamed, delighted a few other readers.

Lane Campbell from Cincinnati said in a comment, "With that insight this move is more like Apple is moving back to where the idea sprang up. They should have made the building shaped like a seed."

Victor Liew, from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia,