Inventer. Alan Shugart, an engineer and entrepreneur whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. He invented the Disk Drive. He studied engineering physics at Redlands University and started work at I.B.M. the day after he graduated. After leaving Seagate, he founded Al Shugart International. He wrote Fandango: The Story of Two Guys Who Wanted to Own a Restaurant (1993); Ernest Goes to Washington (Well, Not Exactly); A True Story About the Dog Who Ran for Congress (1998).
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Entrepeneur and Inventor. An IBM engineer, he played a key role in defining the computer disk drive industry. Born in Chino, California, he studied engineering at Redlands University and began working for IBM immediatly upon graduation. Initially an IBM field service engineer for punched card accounting machines, he soon was intimately involved in almost every advance in the computer storage industry across four decades. During his career, computer storage systems physically shrank from monsters larger than oil barrels to compact boxes that today fit in the palm of the hand. Concurrently, digital storage capacities soared from the equivalent of several books to whole libraries. At IBM's research laboratory in San Jose, California, in 1955, he particpated in the development of the first disk drive, the RAMAC, a drive able to store 5 million characters of data, a giant step forward at the time. IBM introduced the RAMAC commercially in 1959 initially leasing the system for $750 a month. He rose to IBM's director of engineering for the systems development division and later left to join Memorex in 1969. Founded Shugart Associates in 1972 to develop a low cost, floppy disk drive but was fired in 1974; he bounced back in 1979 co-founding Seagate Technology which grew to command a dominant share of most computer drive markets and employ 110,000 people. In 1998 he refused a request from Seagate's board of directors for a succession plan and was fired. He then founded a venture capital and consulting firm, Al Shugart International, and invested in over a dozen technology companies. Died of complications after heart surgery, in Monterey, California.
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Entrepeneur and Inventor. An IBM engineer, he played a key role in defining the computer disk drive industry. Born in Chino, California, he studied engineering at Redlands University and began working for IBM immediatly upon graduation. Initially an IBM field service engineer for punched card accounting machines, he soon was intimately involved in almost every advance in the computer storage industry across four decades. During his career, computer storage systems physically shrank from monsters larger than oil barrels to compact boxes that today fit in the palm of the hand. Concurrently, digital storage capacities soared from the equivalent of several books to whole libraries. At IBM's research laboratory in San Jose, California, in 1955, he particpated in the development of the first disk drive, the RAMAC, a drive able to store 5 million characters of data, a giant step forward at the time. IBM introduced the RAMAC commercially in 1959 initially leasing the system for $750 a month. He rose to IBM's director of engineering for the systems development division and later left to join Memorex in 1969. Founded Shugart Associates in 1972 to develop a low cost, floppy disk drive but was fired in 1974; he bounced back in 1979 co-founding Seagate Technology which grew to command a dominant share of most computer drive markets and employ 110,000 people. In 1998 he refused a request from Seagate's board of directors for a succession plan and was fired. He then founded a venture capital and consulting firm, Al Shugart International, and invested in over a dozen technology companies. Died of complications after heart surgery, in Monterey, California.
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Inventer. Alan Shugart, an engineer and entrepreneur whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. He invented the Disk Drive. He studied engineering physics at Redlands University and started work at I.B.M. the day after he graduated. After leaving Seagate, he founded Al Shugart International. He wrote Fandango: The Story of Two Guys Who Wanted to Own a Restaurant (1993); Ernest Goes to Washington (Well, Not Exactly); A True Story About the Dog Who Ran for Congress (1998).
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Entrepeneur and Inventor. An IBM engineer, he played a key role in defining the computer disk drive industry. Born in Chino, California, he studied engineering at Redlands University and began working for IBM immediatly upon graduation. Initially an IBM field service engineer for punched card accounting machines, he soon was intimately involved in almost every advance in the computer storage industry across four decades. During his career, computer storage systems physically shrank from monsters larger than oil barrels to compact boxes that today fit in the palm of the hand. Concurrently, digital storage capacities soared from the equivalent of several books to whole libraries. At IBM's research laboratory in San Jose, California, in 1955, he particpated in the development of the first disk drive, the RAMAC, a drive able to store 5 million characters of data, a giant step forward at the time. IBM introduced the RAMAC commercially in 1959 initially leasing the system for $750 a month. He rose to IBM's director of engineering for the systems development division and later left to join Memorex in 1969. Founded Shugart Associates in 1972 to develop a low cost, floppy disk drive but was fired in 1974; he bounced back in 1979 co-founding Seagate Technology which grew to command a dominant share of most computer drive markets and employ 110,000 people. In 1998 he refused a request from Seagate's board of directors for a succession plan and was fired. He then founded a venture capital and consulting firm, Al Shugart International, and invested in over a dozen technology companies. Died of complications after heart surgery, in Monterey, California.
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Entrepeneur and Inventor. An IBM engineer, he played a key role in defining the computer disk drive industry. Born in Chino, California, he studied engineering at Redlands University and began working for IBM immediatly upon graduation. Initially an IBM field service engineer for punched card accounting machines, he soon was intimately involved in almost every advance in the computer storage industry across four decades. During his career, computer storage systems physically shrank from monsters larger than oil barrels to compact boxes that today fit in the palm of the hand. Concurrently, digital storage capacities soared from the equivalent of several books to whole libraries. At IBM's research laboratory in San Jose, California, in 1955, he particpated in the development of the first disk drive, the RAMAC, a drive able to store 5 million characters of data, a giant step forward at the time. IBM introduced the RAMAC commercially in 1959 initially leasing the system for $750 a month. He rose to IBM's director of engineering for the systems development division and later left to join Memorex in 1969. Founded Shugart Associates in 1972 to develop a low cost, floppy disk drive but was fired in 1974; he bounced back in 1979 co-founding Seagate Technology which grew to command a dominant share of most computer drive markets and employ 110,000 people. In 1998 he refused a request from Seagate's board of directors for a succession plan and was fired. He then founded a venture capital and consulting firm, Al Shugart International, and invested in over a dozen technology companies. Died of complications after heart surgery, in Monterey, California.
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