Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), the biggest maker of disk drives, was originally Shugart Technology because of co-founder Al Shugart, who'd sold his earlier company,
Shugart Associates, to Xerox Corp.
The
Shugart Associates System Interface (SASI), a predecessor to SCSI, was developed in 1979.
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The first 51/4in floppy drive was introduced by
Shugart Associates in 1976 to be compatible with IBM's mainframe computers, then made the transition to the company's early personal computers.
First there was Al Shugart's protocol: the
Shugart Associates Systems Interface, or SASI, for short.
