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ALAN SHUGART
BY: TATUM BENNETT
INVENTOR!
Inventor's Name: Alan Shugart
Birthday: September 27
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California
high school: Can't find it
College: University of Redlands
Career: an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
Location of Career: Aliso Viejo, CA
2 other facts about inventor:
1- He received a BS in engineering physics
2- He began his career at IBM as a field engineer
INVENTOR
Name of invention: Floppy Disk Drive
Date invented/released: 1971
What does this item do that other items before it couldn't do? It saves all your work.. You would have to find another way to save your work. For example, writing what you did down.
What did the invention lead to? Were other things invented because of this? turned microcomputers into personal computers. Also, let people save their work instead of having to re-do it. Yes, IBM as a way to load microcode into one of their mainframe computers and thus effectively replaced the tabulating card.
2 other facts about invention:
1 Microsoft Word's save button is a floppy disk.
2 Floppy disks store much less data than a CD-ROM disk or USB flash drive.
INVENTION
“Alan Shugart.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Oct. 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shugart.
Kopytoff, Verne. “Alan Shugart -- Pioneer in Computer Disk Drives.” SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2012, https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alan-Shugart-pioneer-in-computer-disk-drives-2543182.php.
“The Floppy Disk.” IBM100 - The Floppy Disk, https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/transform/#:~:text=The%20first%20floppy%20disk%20was,floppy%20disks%20were%20read%2Donly.
“The Floppy Disk.” IBM100 - The Floppy Disk, https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/transform/#:~:text=The%20first%20floppy%20disk%20was,floppy%20disks%20were%20read%2Donly.
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