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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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Steve Jobs learned from his failures. How about you?

Jobs first failed at Apple in ways that nearly bankrupted the company. He then failed to oust his hand-picked CEO, John Sculley when he couldn’t control him and was, in turn, ousted by Sculley and Apple’s Board of Directors. Having been voted off the Apple island, Jobs’ next venture was the NeXT Computer, where he [...]

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