Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955) is a retired American computer engineer who created the first wire wrap prototype of the motherboard for the original Macintosh at Apple Computer.
Atkinson recommended him to Jef Raskin, who, along with Steve Wozniak, was looking for a hardware engineer for their newly formed Macintosh project.
[2] As a member of the design team,[3] Smith prototyped five different motherboards using techniques based on Programmable Array Logic (PAL) chips to achieve maximum functionality with a minimal chip count and cost.
Smith left the company before the release of Apple's Turbo Mac design platform, with an internal hard drive and a further simplified chipset.
[5][6] In 1993, he was accused of "breaking windows, throwing a firecracker and leaving letters at the house" of Steve Jobs[5] and the case was dropped when he accepted treatment.