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A 44 MB, 5.25-inch full-height MiniScribe hard disk, shown with a more recent 2 GB CompactFlash memory card for size comparison. The company was started by Terry Johnson, who had a 20-year career in the hard drive business at such companies as IBM, Memorex and Storage Technology Corporation.
Terry Johnson (March 14, 1935 – July 24, 2010) was an engineer and entrepreneur notable for his work on hard disk drives (HDD). Johnson's early career included engineering and management roles in magnetic recording at IBM (1964–70) and Memorex (1971–73).
Jul 30, 2010 · Terry Johnson, founder of Longmont’s MiniScribe, found dead in Canada. Canadian authorities say they’ve recovered the body of a Longmont man who crashed in the Northwest Territories on his...
Dec 11, 1984 · The Miniscribe Corporation, a disk- drive maker that absorbed a sharp blow earlier this year when the International Business Machines Corporation reduced its orders for data storage devices,...
Oct 10, 2019 · The HDD maker was founded in 1980 by Terry Johnson, who had a 20-year career in this business at PrairieTek as co-founder in 1985 (with Jim Morehouse), IBM, Memorex and StorageTek. Miniscribe became a major player when it won a series of contracts to supply IBM’s PC division, becoming a second source to Seagate, and their subsequent rapid ...
MiniScribe designed and sold stepper motor-based hard disk drives with a large amount of onboard intelligence for the time. They eventually moved into higher-profile voice coil motor designs, at which time, Terry G. Johnson retired and sold the company. The company then went bankrupt.
Jul 29, 2010 · Canadian officials said the wreckage of Terry Johnson’s Beechcraft Bonanza was found at 10 a.m. Thursday, about 80 miles southeast of Norman Wells, in the Northwest Territories. Johnson, 75,...
