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Burrell Smith

Hardware wizard who designed the original Macintosh digital board.

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Created the first wire-wrap prototype of the Macintosh motherboard and iterated five designs using PAL chips to maximize function while cutting chip count and cost.
  • Designed the motherboard for Apple's LaserWriter, the printer that helped launch desktop publishing.

Apple

Macintosh hardware engineer

Built the first wire-wrap prototype of the Macintosh motherboard; his signature is molded inside the Mac case.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

You squeezed a miracle out of the fewest possible chips because that was the elegant thing to do. Thank you for the wizardry, Burrell.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • folklore.org
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