Sunday, December 19, 2010

Personal 03

Identify this person?
Answer added on 29/12/2010: Alan Shugart

Hint: His careen defined the modern computer disk drive industry.

Answer: Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
He was the founder of Shugart Associates in 1973, later acquired by Xerox. Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in 1979, which soon changed its name to Seagate Technology.

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2 comments:

  1. Alan Shugart. He invented the floppy disk and founded the Shugart Company now known as Seagate which is the largest manufacturer of hard disk drives in the world.

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