Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955 in upstate New York) 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 in February, 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician. He also designed the digital board for Apple's LaserWriter, and designed a low cost version of the Apple II that eventually became the Apple IIe, using the same, innovati...
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Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955 in upstate New York) 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 in February, 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician. He also designed the digital board for Apple's LaserWriter, and designed a low cost version of the Apple II that eventually became the Apple IIe, using the same, innovative design techniques that he pioneered with the Mac.
There are many memorable stories about Burrell detailed at Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore.org website. He was working in Apple's service department when he helped Bill Atkinson to add more memory to an Apple II in an innovative fashion. Bill recommended him to Jef Raskin, who was looking for a hardware engineer to help him with his newly formed Macintosh project. Burrell actually designed five different digital boards during the course of Macintosh development, all of which used extremely clever...
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