Burrell Carver 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 an Apple II service technician. According to Folklore.org, one day, Smith put a handwritten manual on Andy Hertzfeld's desk explaining the digital board of the Apple II; Hertzfeld was very impressed at how well Burrell explained the digital board of the Apple II, … Wikipedia
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