Laszlo Zsidek

László Zsidek (June 30, 1937 – February 7, 2009) was a Hungarian-American manufacturing engineer and a member of the original Macintosh development team at Apple Computer.
==Career==
Zsidek emigrated from Hungary to the United States at the age of 19 in 1956. He joined Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for 21 years as an engineer on projects that included lasers and atomic clocks. At HP, Zsidek met Steve Wozniak, who left the company and co-founded Apple Computer in 1976.MACváltó: Történelmi idôk tanúja (Hungarian), e-Times Hungary. 2001-06.
===Apple Computer===
Wozniak later recruited Zsidek, who joined Apple in 1979 to become employee #350. As a tooling and manufacturing engineer in the desktop division, Zsidek was involved in the molding of parts to conceptual design specifications, and the selection of vendors for the manufacturing process.Choosing Molding Vendor by Jim Yurchenco, Apple Computer, Making the Macintosh, Stanford University. 1980-12-05. His signature is among those molded inside the case of the original Macintosh 128K, which was released in January 1984,Macintosh Insiders (PDF) by Owen L. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company p.104-108, No Starch Press. 2004. as well as the Macintosh IIci, which was released in September 1989.Apple Macintosh IIci case signatures by Martin Burch, Highland Historic Computer Museum. 2012-01-23. Zsidek moved to the portable computer division in 1990. He also worked on the Apple Network Server, which was released in February 1996. His signature is among those molded onto the back of the server's sliding drive door.Floodgap ANSwers: Photo Album by Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap. Accessed 2021-02-26. Zsidek then joined the input device department in 1998.
===After Apple===
By 2001, Zsidek was focused on teaching and counseling, though he continued working with Apple as a consultant on the manufacturing of the PowerBook G4.Az Apple magyar szíve (Hungarian) by Gulyás István, Almalap. 2001-03.
==References==
==See also==
*List of early Apple Computer employees
Category:Former Apple employees
Category:Former HP employees