Seven Days:

In 1977, when Jerry Manock was 33 and Apple had just five employees, Steve Jobs hired him as a consultant to design the Apple II, one of the first personal computers in history to be successfully mass produced and marketed. Manock gets credit for almost everything but the circuit board and the logic Board: the machine’s “thermal management, the structure, the outside aesthetics, the color — beige, Pantone 453, the color of the deep-space universe,” Manock says, rattling off his contributions to the once-cutting-edge Apple II, which now looks like a yellowing typewriter on a shelf in his office.Beside it sits the smaller, self-contained, revolutionary Macintosh. Manock was part of the original team of a half-dozen workers who designed the Mac.

An interesting interview with one of the original Apple II and Macintosh designers.