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, [...]
Casino skimming was a large problem for the FBI in the 1960s. Skimming was the way Las Vegas casinos avoided taxes by illegally siphoning off gambling profits and routing those funds to a number of organized crime syndicates across the nation. Robert Howard started the company Centronics Data Computer Corporation to develop casino accounting systems [...]
Silicon Valley, located in Northern California just south of San Francisco, is known as the high-tech capitol of America. It is the hub for some of the world’s most successful technology corporations as well as thousands of small startups. In an effort to figure out the motivating force behind the formation of these successful and [...]
