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Shugart Associates

(company)
The disk drive company, founded by Alan F. Shugart, which developed SCSI. Alan left Shugart Associates in 1974 Shugart Associates was bought, and eventually shut down by Xerox.
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The Shugart Associates System Interface (SASI), a predecessor to SCSI, was developed in 1979.
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