Details
Type
Text
Title
McCoy, Jim (James) oral history
Contributor
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McCoy, James, Interviewee
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Porter, James, Interviewer
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Rosenshteyn, Yan, Cameraperson
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Date
2005-10-03
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Extent
21 p.
Description
Jim McCoy had a diverse early working history, which included operating metal machining equipment, magnetic head manufacturing at IBM, managing magnetic head manufacturing at Cartridge Television for the first home video recorder, manufacturing video heads at Information Magnetics, product manager for data cartridge drives at Verbatim, and FDD product management at Shugart Associates. In 1980, he co-founded Quantum Corporation, and in 1982 he co-founded Maxtor Corporation, which became a leading disk drive manufacturer after pioneering the market for high performance 5.25 inch disk drives.
Category
Transcription
Subject
McCoy, Jim; Quantum; Maxtor; Shugart Associates; Cartridge Television; IBM; Verbatim; Singapore; Storage history
Collection Title
Oral Histories Online
Accession Number
102657936
