Alan Shugart
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Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
Alan Shugart
Shugart Associates
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Shugart Associates was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5+1⁄4-inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In
Alan Shugart
…with IBM 3330) disk storage subsystems. His team also developed the Memorex 650, one of the first commercially available floppy disk drives. He founded Shugart Associates in February 1973 and resigned as CEO in October 1974. The company was later acquired by Xerox. Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in…
Former headquarters in Sunnyvale, California
Shugart SA400 minifloppy 5+1⁄4-inch disk drive.
Shugart SA1004 – 10MB 8 inch hard disk drive.