Posted on 12/13/2006 12:26:43 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Alan Shugart, the iconic -- and iconoclastic -- co-founder of Seagate Technology, is dead at 76, according to the company.
One of the creators of the multi-billion dollar hard drive industry, Shugart was also well-known for colorful antics like running his dog for Congress.
He died at about 2 p.m. Tuesday at Community Hospital in Monterey. Shugart's health had declined following open-heart surgery six weeks ago. Until the day of his death, Shugart was still checking work e-mails involving Al Shugart International, his start-up incubator in Santa Cruz, according to his daughter, Teri Shugart.
The legendary Shugart and his business partner Finis Conner, co-founded Seagate in 1979 in time to make the industry's first 5 1/4-inch drives for the IBM personal computer.
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The dog should have won, I'm afraid.
I think my first Seagate was a 10 MEG drive ... very long ago
Right,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Jack, the Captain want's to see you.
heh, someone got it :-)
Yep, on the third time around the wheelhouse. great memories. have the vinyl.
I have it on a CD compilation (I have a lot of Demented disks). I was very surprised to find out that Jaime Brockett wasn't some black blues singer, but some old white hippie from the northeast, lol.
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