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Who first created the small disk drive used in PC’s and Macs?

It was Al Shugart who began his career at IBM in San Jose, California and rose to become the company’s direct access storage product manager, responsible for its disk storage products. Direct access and disk storage were IBM’s most profitable businesses at that time. Shugart went on to found the self-named Shugart Associates in 1973, [...]

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