James N. Porter

James N. Porter, first became involved with data storage products in 1968, when he joined the industry pioneer Memorex, serving in a variety of marketing management positions through 1971. After experience with early hand-held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974. In 1977 he founded DISK/TREND, Inc., which published market studies of the worldwide disk drive and data storage industries. After 23 years, the company's publishing activities were phased out, and he is now working on several projects to preserve the history of the disk drive industry, in addition to management consulting in the data storage industry. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Computer History Museum, and chairs the museum's storage committee. He is also a founder and active participant of IDEMA, the disk drive industry's trade association.