Steve Jobs, John Sculley and Steve Wozniak unveil the Apple IIc computer in 1984. Source: News Limited

Xerox, Hewlett Packard and Dell all had their roots in the car park.

Apple founder Steve Jobs often referenced his parents garage in Los Altos, California, as the birthplace of Apple in the spring of 1976 — and Silicon Valley lore still does.

Well, along comes Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to put a damper on the legend about the birthplace of the Apple I and Apple II computers.

“The garage is a bit of a myth,” he told Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brandon Lisy.

“We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products,” the computer pioneer known as “Woz” said.

“We did no manufacturing there. The garage didn’t serve much purpose, except it was something for us to feel was our home,” he added.

“We had no money. You have to work out of your home when you have no money.”

So ingrained is the mystique of the Los Altos garage as the birthplace of Apple that the town last year designated it a historic landmark.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Source: AFP

Wozniak also told Businessweek, “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.].

“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 [there],” Woz added.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post.