Details

Type

Text

Title

Magnetic disk storage: a personal memoir

Author

Hoagland, Albert S.

Date

2011

Copyright Holder

Hoagland, Albert S.

Description

Al Hoagland describes his work on non-contact magnetic recording, beginning at UC Berkeley and continuing on at IBM. While at IBM, Hoagland worked on the design and development of the RAMAC disk drive system, the forerunner of all modern disk drives. Hoagland describes the state of the industry in terms of IBM and its competitors and the challenges they faced as the disk drive became an inexpensive commodity product.

Accession Number

102716418

Credit

Gift of Albert S. Hoagland