Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
10 Facts About Alan Shugart
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Alan Shugart was married to Rita Shugart from 1981 until his death.
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Alan Shugart died on December 12,2006 in Monterey, California of complications from heart surgery he had undergone six weeks earlier.
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Alan Shugart began his career in 1951 as a field engineer at IBM.
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Alan Shugart rose through a series of increasingly important positions to become the Direct Access Storage Product Manager, responsible for disk storage products, IBM's most profitable businesses at that time.
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Alan Shugart joined Memorex in 1969 as Vice President of its Equipment Division and led the development of its 3660 and 3670 disk storage subsystems.
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Alan Shugart's team developed the Memorex 650, one of the first commercially available floppy disk drives.
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Alan Shugart founded Shugart Associates in February 1973 and resigned as CEO in October 1974.
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Alan Shugart later wrote about that experience in a book, Ernest Goes to Washington.
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Alan Shugart backed a failed ballot initiative in 2000 to give California voters the option of choosing "none of the above" in elections.