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Among longtime employees who knew Al Shugart well, Karen Seifert is in a class of her own—she worked directly for Shugart both at Seagate and in his next venture after he left the company. Karen Seifert with one of Al Shugart’s many tropical shirts, on display in the lobby at Seagate in Cupertino, California. Seifert, who joined Seagate in ...
One such company was Shugart Associates, established by Alan F. Shugart and colleagues. Shugart had worked at IBM and then Memorex; his associates had similar backgrounds. The first product of Shugart Associates, sold from about 1973, was the SA900 disk drive for 8” floppy disks.
Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company. It was incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology and commenced business in 1979. [2] Since 2010, the company has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Fremont, California, United States.
Alan Shugart. AKA Alan Field Shugart. SCSI interface. Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Location of death: San Jose, CA Cause of death: Complications of Surgery. Gen. Mother: (schoolteacher) Wife: (div.) Wife: Rita K. Shugart (m. 1979) University: BS Engineering Physics, University of Redlands (1951) Seagate Founder (1979-98) Memorex VP ...
- September 27, 1930
- December 12, 2006
1998: Cofounder Alan Shugart resigns under pressure from the company's board of directors. 2000: Seagate goes private in a $20 billion stock swap and management buyout. Company History: Seagate Technology, Inc. has been the world's leading independent manufacturer of rigid magnetic disks and disk drives for computers since the 1980s.
Memorial Tribute. BY GORDON F. HUGHES. SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY. ALAN F. SHUGART, pioneer of the multibillion-dollar computer hard-drive industry and co-founder of Seagate Technology, died December 12, 2006, at the age of 76, of complications from heart ...
Beginning in the late 1960s, engineers began to leave the security of IBM to seek greater financial reward in the entrepreneurial climate of Silicon Valley. “The Dirty Dozen” departed to found the first IBM disk drive spinout, Information Storage Systems (ISS) in 1967, and a large group followed Alan Shugart to Memorex in 1969.
