nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
american 16 december 1955 designed the original macintosh . the motherboard -lrb- digital circuit board -rrb- for burrell smith
 burrell smith engineer , inventor
burrell smith

burrell carver smith -lrb- born december 16 , 1955 -rrb- is an american engineer who , while working at apple computer , designed the motherboard -lrb- digital circuit board -rrb- 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 motherboard 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 .
burrell was working in apple 's service department when he helped bill atkinson add more memory to an apple ii computer 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 .
as a member of the design team , burrell designed five different motherboards during the course of macintosh development , all of which used techniques based on programmable array logic -lrb- pal -rrb- chips to achieve maximum functionality with a minimal chip count .
burrell left the company before releasing apple 's `` turbo mac '' design platform , which included an internal hard drive and a further simplified chipset .
he was later a co-founder of radius inc. , and is retired and living in palo alto .
burrell reportedly suffered from schizophrenia during the 1990s .
actor lenny jacobson portrayed him in the 2013 film , `` jobs . ''
