Senior "Apple fans" know that if you open the case of the early integrated Apple Mac, you can find the engraved signatures of many "hardcore" staff on the inside, including Jeff Ruskin.

in the book "TheMacBathroomReader", which describes apple's "weird" history, there is a chapter devoted to explaining these signatures. Notes on Jeff Ruskin in Books: Father of Macintosh Project in 1979.

Before joining Apple, Jeff Ruskin, like all computer graduates, set up a small company to write software for others. The company is not famous, so there is no business. Jeff, the boss and only buddy who is dizzy with hunger, has to take a second "odd job"-writing computer reports for the local newspaper to support himself.

In p>1976, he was sent to a garage by a newspaper editor to interview stephen wozniak and Steve Jobs, two founders of Apple. The three people hit it off and chatted, and the interview turned into a "job fair". They invited Jeff Ruskin to Apple as the general manager of the R&D department.

in p>1978, Jeff Ruskin got the "No.31" employee license of Apple and a five-person R&D team, specializing in personal computers.

At the first R&D meeting, he joked with the team members: "Since this project is to be named, I hope to use my favorite fruit name in Manhattan when I was a child-McIntosh Apple."

This joke really became the name of the first generation of Apple computers. In order to avoid trademark wars, the company deliberately misspelled McIntosh as Macintosh.