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+title: ALAN SHUGART FOUNDS SHUGART TECHNOLOGY
+date: '1979-03-01'
+years:
+- '1979'
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+- Companies
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+  when: MARCH 1979
+  oc_id: 51
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20220429214055/http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=51
+    date: '2022-04-29'
+---
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+![](/media/history/images/timeline_0379_shugart_1.jpg)
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+In 1978, Alan Shugart met Finis Conner at Memorex. Conner had a great idea: to build a hard drive the same size as a 5.25" floppy drive but with 15 times the capacity and 10 times the speed. At this time people were beginning to buy a lot of PCs with several floppy drives and needed more and more storage capacity.
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+In 1979, they founded Shugart Technology. The company was soon renamed Seagate Technology because Xerox which acquired Shugart Associates, a floppy drive company also founded by Shugart in 1975, would sue them over the name.
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+One year later, they introduced first small hard disk drives which packed 5 to 10 MB of storage, they sold thousands of them, mainly to IBM for their mainframe. Within a few years, they had produced 4 million units.
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+The same year, Shugart Associates defined the specifications of a new interface using a device-independent parallel connection and allowing to attach several peripherals to a same desktop computer. This interface was called **SASI** (Shugart Associates Systems Interface). In 1982, NCR added features to Shugart's original interface which was renamed in **SCSI** (Small Computer System Interface) and then widely used, particularly by Apple.
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+In 1981, several of the engineers who worked on SASI left Seagate to form Adaptec, a host card manufacturer. Finis Conner also left the company in 1984 and launched Conner Peripherals.
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+For more than 15 years, under Shugart leadership, Seagate was the first hard disk manufacturer. In 1997, the company employed 100,000 people worldwide with a $9 billion turnover. Sadly, one year later, the company lost more than 650 M$. The lost was inputted to Shugart who resigned from Seagate Technology's board in August 1998.
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+![](/media/history/images/timeline_0379_shugart_2.jpg)