Burrell Smith is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired February, 1979, initially as a service technician.
Because of internal politics, he left the company before releasing Apple's "Turbo Mac" design platform, which included an internal hard drive and a simplified chipset.
He was a co-founder of Radius Corp.
He is retired and living in Palo Alto.
Trivia
After nine full months working at Apple computer in 1979, Burrell Smith still had not been promoted.
External links
- Folklore.org — A collection of first-hand accounts of the early days of the Macintosh.
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