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The Shugart floppy held 100 KBs of data. In 1976, the 5 1/4" flexible disk drive and diskette was developed by Alan Shugart for Wang Laboratories. Wang had wanted a smaller floppy disk and drive to use with their desktop computers. By 1978, more than 10 manufacturers were producing 5 1/4" floppy drives. In 1981, Sony introduced the first 3 1/2 ...
Dec 29, 2006 · Pebble Beach – Alan Field Shugart, age 76, died peacefully at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 from complications of heart surgery. Al was an ...
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 ...
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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.
Aug 9, 2007 · In 1974, Shugart's backers fired him and, almost broke, he moved to Santa Cruz, opened a bar and bought a salmon-fishing boat, according to BusinessWeek. "I had a tough time meeting my Porsche ...
Dec 12, 2006 · Born Alan FIELD SHUGART. American engineer, entrepreneur, business executive and founder of Seagate Technologies. Born on September 27, 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA , United States. Died on December 12, 2006 in Monterey Co., California, USA. Born on September 27 46. Deceased on December 12 36.
