Rich Page

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Richard A. Page (born May 15, 1951) is a hardware engineer who was part of the Apple Lisa development team and also contributed to the Macintosh at Apple Computer. He became an Apple Fellow in 1983.Credit Where Due by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore.org, January 1983. Retrieved May 26, 2006.
==Early life and education==
Page was born in in 1951 and grew up in , near San Francisco. He received his bachelor's degrees in math and physics and master's degree in computer science from San Jose State University.Artifact Details: Page, Rich oral history, Computer History Museum. 2018-11-07.
==Career==
Page first worked at while still in college in 1972. He was then recruited by John Couch to work on the minicomputer at Hewlett-Packard.
===Apple Computer===
Page was recruited by co-founder Steve Jobs to join Apple Computer at the urging of Couch, who himself had joined Apple in 1978. Page became responsible for the decision to use the Motorola 68000 processor in the Lisa and the first Macintosh 128K. He then prototyped Apple's first portable computer and 68020-based system. The 68020 prototype, named "Big Mac", was used to develop MacPaint 2.0. However, it was passed over for a NuBus slot-based design that was used for the Macintosh II.Evolution Of A Classic by David Ramsey, Folklore. 1986-03.
===After Apple===
When Steve Jobs left the company in 1985, Page also left and joined Jobs as a founding member of NeXT. As Vice President of Digital Hardware Engineering, Page was responsible for developing the NeXTcube and NeXTstation. He left NeXT in 1992, shortly before its hardware division was closed.People by Rixstep, The NeXTonian. Accessed 2020-06-11.
Page became executive chairman of Chowbotics, a food preparation robotics company.Chowbotics Takes Sally The Salad Robot On Tour by Emily Jed, Vending Times. 2018-04-05.
==References==
==External links==
*Rich Page at Alteon Capital Partners
*Rich Page at Folklore
*Rich Page at LinkedIn
*Richard Page at PitchBook
*Rich Page at Silicon Catalyst
*Rich Page at the NeXT Wiki
* at Wikipedia
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