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Alan Shugart (b. 1930 in Los Angeles) is a leading engineer/executive in the disk drive industry. He began his career at IBM in San Jose, CA, and rose through a series of increasingly important positions to become the Direct Access Storge Product Manager, the business person in IBM responsible for its disk storage products—IBM's most profitable business at that time. Among the several groups reporting to Al was the team that invented the floppy disk. He was the founder of Shugart Associates in 1973, later acquired by Xerox. Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in 1979, which soon changed its name to Seagate Technology.
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