TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Disk Drive Pioneer Al Sugart Dies

Re: Disk Drive Pioneer Al Sugart Dies

Herb Oxley (nospam4me@mytrashmail.com)
Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:16:41 UTC

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Associated Press News Wire wrote:

>> Shugart helped pioneer the multibillion dollar hard drive industry, in
>> which Seagate now holds the leading market position. He founded the
>> company in 1979 and left in 1998.

> Just a tiny clarification -- the hard disk drive was invented and
> marketed by IBM 50 years ago, announced in their product line in Sept
> 1956. IBM also invented the floppy disk as well.

Typical mainstream media oversimplification; they left out "personal
computer" before "hard drive".

Herb Oxley
From: address IS Valid.

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