Dick Huston

James Richard "Dick" Huston was an early employee of Apple Computer.

Background
Dick Huston joined Apple in late 1997 as employee #25 along with his older brother Cliff who became employee #27. Dick collaborated with co-founder Steve Wozniak to write the 13-sector boot ROM of the original Disk II floppy drive for the Apple II. Dick also worked on DOS 3.2, SOS for the Apple III, the ProFile hard disk, ProDOS, and the Apple IIc. Dick and Cliff left Apple in 1984 to join "The Engineering Department", co-founded by Wendell Sander with other early employees.

Dick re-joined Apple as part of the Newton group from 1994 to 1998, where he worked on the Newton Connection Kit and Newton OS 2.x.

Articles

 * Scrooge McDuck by Andy Hertzfeld at Folklore (1980-02)
 * Early Apple Employees Auction Killer Collectibles by Nicole Martinelli at Cult of Mac (2010-03-15)
 * Episode 153: The Huston Brothers at RetroMacCast (2010-03-20)
 * Vintage Apple 1 computer sells for $374,500 at auction at the San Jose Mercury News (2012-06-15)
 * Who are the unsung heroes in Apple's history? by Randy Wigginton at Quora (2014-03-02)