Alan F. Shugart, an engineer and entrepreneur whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry, died Tuesday in Monterey, Calif. He was 76. ... In 1972 he left Memorex to found Shugart Associates, which introduced a lower-cost 8-inch form-factor floppy disk drive.
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Alan Shugart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was a leading computer engineer working in the disk drive industry. He was widely considered a pioneer of the disk drive. Born in Los Angel...
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AKA Alan F. Shugart ... Seagate Founder (1979-98); Memorex VP Product Development (1969-73); IBM Scientist, developed the floppy disk (1951-68); National Academy of Engineering; Risk Factors: Club Foot;
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'the floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by alan shugart in 1967. the first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk (later called a 'diskette' as it got smaller), which evolved into the 5.25-inch disk that was used on the first IBM Personal;
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The first 5.25-inch floppy was introduced by Shugart Associates in 1976, in cooperation with Dysan Corp. Each only stored 100KB and were single-sided. Much churning of disk formats and data density later, ... I am almost certain that Alan Shugart invented the floppy before 1970 while working at IBM. IBM didn't give him...
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Alan Shugart b 1930 in Los Angeles is a leading engineer/executive in the disk drive industry He began his career at IBM in San Jose CA and rose through a series of increasingly important positions to become the Direct Access Storge Product Manager the business person in IBM responsible for its disk storage ... Alan Shugart (b.
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The floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by Alan Shugart in 1967. The first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk (later called a "diskette" as it got smaller), which evolved into the 5.25-inch disk that was used on the first IBM Personal Computer in August 1981. The 5.25-inch disk held 360 kilobytes compared to the...
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In the end, it was this characteristic that ended his IBM career in 1969. Before he left, however, one of his pet projects was the development of the 8 ? floppy disk drive. It was designed for loading microcode into the S/360 mainframes. ... Bookmark Remembering Alan Shugart, Leading Disk Drive Pioneer at del.icio.us...
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