George Crow

George L. Crow Jr. was a member of the original Macintosh development team at Apple Computer.

Education
Crow received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the and a M.S. in Computer Science from.

Career
Crow previously worked at Hewlett-Packard around 1980.

Apple Computer
Crow joined the Macintosh development team at Apple Computer in 1981. He designed the analog board that would contain the power supply and video circuitry for the first Macintosh 128K. When the prototype developed problems with the early Twiggy drive, he worked behind the scenes to have it replaced with Sony's new 3.5-inch floppy mechanism.



NeXT and back to Apple
Crow left Apple with Steve Jobs in 1985 to become a co-founding member of NeXT as the Vice President of Analog Hardware Engineering. He left NeXT to work for SuperMac and then Truevision. In 1999, Crow returned to Apple with Jobs back as CEO, recalling that the general atmosphere was similar to how it was in the 1980s. In 2006, he retired.

Articles

 * George Crow talks Apple, then and now at MacMinute (2004-03-24, archived 2004-04-01)
 * Geek Of The Week: George Crow by Kale at Geek Trio (2011-10-24)
 * NeXT Cofounder George Crow Reflects On Engineering The First Macintosh by Jennifer Elias at Fast Company (2014-01-24)
 * The Art of Innovation: George Crow’s Path from Cal to Apple by Tom Kertscher at Cal Alumni Association (2018-08-29)