Robert Leroy "Bob" Bailey (August 31, 1938 – August 11, 2010) was a hardware engineer at Apple Computer.[1]
Education and personal life[]
Bailey received a B.A. in business and geology from Colorado College and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Southern California.[2] Bailey married Jan, with whom he had a son, Robert, and a daughter, Jule.[1]
Career[]
Prior to joining Apple Computer, Bailey had worked at Shugart, Hewlett-Packard, and Synertek.[1]
Apple Computer[]
While still working at Synertek, Bailey collaborated with Apple staff scientist Wendell Sander to consolidate Steve Wozniak's Disk II controller board design onto a single chip that came to be known as the "Integrated Woz Machine".[3]
After joining Apple, Bailey consolidated the six Programmable Array Logic (PAL) chips of earlier compact Macs down to two for the Macintosh SE, which was released in 1987. Bailey's custom chip designs were manufactured for Apple by VLSI Technology and General Logic Unit (GLU) and became known as "Bob Bailey Units" (BBUs).[4] Original Macintosh team member Andy Hertzfeld credited Bailey and Brian Howard with engineering the best of the early Macintosh models.[5]
After Apple[]
Bailey later became the director of business development at efunda and retired in San Jose, California.[2][1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Robert (Bob) LeRoy Bailey, by San Jose Mercury News. Legacy. 2010-08-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Management Team, eFunda. Accessed 2021-07-31.
- ↑ Milestones:Apple Macintosh Computer, Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Accessed 2021-07-31.
- ↑ Inside the Macintosh SE by Gabriel Torres, Hardware Secrets. 2013-02-06.
- ↑ Eulogy for Brian by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore. 2010-02.
External links[]
- Robert Leroy Bailey at AncientFaces
- Robert L. Bailey at Justia Patents
