19 Jan
2003
19 Jan
'03
12:34 p.m.
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
I'd heard that Ron Wayne (the lesser-known of the
three Apple founders)
designed the board, which would have made sense because he designed boards
for Atari, and the layout style of the Apple I board was very similar to
those of Atari boards of that era. However, recently I asked Woz about it,
and he said that it was NOT designed by Ron.
So then who did design it? I thought I may have read somewhere that they
did the board layout at HP using a CAD system there. That may be totally
incorrect though (my recollection and/or the anecdote).
Ron *did* write the Apple I manual, and he designed
the original Apple
logo (Newton under the Apple tree).
His role in the development of the Apple-1 is pretty well covered in the
book _Apple Confidential_.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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