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Among the groups reporting to Shugart was the team that invented the floppy disk. Shugart joined Memorex in 1969 as Vice President of its Equipment Division and led the development of its 3660 (compatible with IBM 2314) and 3670 (compatible with IBM 3330) disk storage subsystems. His team also developed the Memorex 650, one of the first ...
Shugart Associates (later Shugart Corporation) 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 1979 it was one of the first companies to introduce a hard disk drive form factor compatible with a floppy disk ...
Conner met Alan Shugart at Memorex in the early 1970s. In 1973, Shugart, Conner, and seven others founded Shugart Associates , a company that pioneered the development of floppy disks. [ 3 ] At Shugart Associates, Conner was initially responsible for OEM Marketing [ 3 ] ultimately becoming its Western Region Sales Manager. [ 4 ]
The printed circuit board was sized to match the Shugart 801 or 851 floppy drive. This allowed attachment to up to two 8 inch or 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives . The Big Board II added a SASI interface for hard disk drives , enhancements to system speed (4 MHz vs. 2.5 MHz) and enhancements to the terminal interface.
3.5-inch and 5.25-inch drives connect to the floppy controller using a 34-conductor flat ribbon cable for signal and control. Most controllers support two floppy drives, although the Shugart standard supports up to four drives attached to a single controller. A cable could have 5.25-inch style connectors, 3.5-inch style connectors, or a ...
Shugart Associates, computer peripheral manufacturer; Shugart bus, floppy disk drive interface; Shugart Technology, former name of Seagate Technology; Alan Shugart, founder of Shugart Associates; Clyde Shugart, College and Professional American Football player; Kenneth Shugart, American naval officer and All-American college basketball player
North Star Computers Inc. (later styled as NorthStar) was an American computer company based in Berkeley, California existing between June 1976 [1] and 1989. Originally a mail order business for IMSAI computers, it soon developed into a major player in the early microcomputer market, becoming first known for their low-cost floppy disk system for S-100 bus machines, and later for their own S ...
Just down the street from Intel, Memorex had recently introduced a new low-cost floppy disk drive, [9] and this in turn prompted Alan Shugart to start Shugart Associates and introduce lower-cost drives. Kildall was able to talk Finis Conner, then at Shugart, into giving him one of their older test drives. [10]