Where Are The People From This Iconic Photo Of The Original Mac Team Today?
by Jay Yarow on Feb 26, 2012, 8:01 AM
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 Apple surprised the tech world two weeks ago when it announced plans to upgrade its Mac operating system this summer. It's hard to surprise people nowadays. There are so many reporters and bloggers searching for any nugget of information about Apple that just about any big project leaks ahead of schedule. It was also surprising because it seemed like Apple had moved the Mac OS to the back burner. All the effort and attention has been put into iOS, the mobile operating system. Anyway, in honor of the new Mac OS, we decided to take a look at the original team that created the Macintosh. It was a big team, but we're zeroing in on the photo in this post, which defines the original Mac group to us. Where are these misfits now? Keep reading to find out... George Crow is still at Apple  Crow worked on the analog boards for the Mac, and he convinced the team to adopt the 3.5" floppy disk for the computer, according to Geek Trio. He eventually left Apple to cofound NeXT with Steve Jobs. He came back to Apple when it bought NeXT, and he still works there.
Joanna Hoffman ran marketing  Hoffman was the fifth member of the Mac team. She was in charge of marketing for its first year. Her background prior to the Mac was in anthropology, physics, and linguistics, according to Mac History. She wrote the first draft of the user interface manual, according to Folklore.org. She married Alain Rossman, a fellow Mac employee, and had two children together. She consults non-profits, according to CNET.
Burrell Smith was a genius programmer and is now retired  Walter Isaacson called Smith the "star of the team" in his Steve Jobs' biography. He was the second person on the Mac team and would focus his "manic intensity" into week long engineering binges. He eventually left Apple, and made money selling his startup, Radius. He also suffered from schizophrenia in the 90s. Isaacson said he was found wandering his neighborhood naked in the 90s as he suffered with the disease. Jobs helped get him out of jail once.
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