Title
Berreth, Richard and Tom Murnan oral history panel
Catalog Number
102702131
Type
Document
Description
This interview of Richard Berreth, former Vice President of the Normandale Division, and Tom Murnan, former Program Manager for the Storage Module Drive (SMD), focuses on the period from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, when Control Data Corporation (CDC) developed the SMD disk drive family. This product family was widely adopted by the mini-computer industry and propelled Magnetic Peripherals Inc (MPI), CDC's disk drive joint venture formed with Honeywell in 1975, to over $1 billon in revenue by 1981. Berreth and Murnan discuss their backgrounds, roles, and memories of what it was like at CDC / MPI during this period and why the SMD family was so successful.
Date
2009-06-23
Contributor
Berreth, Richard, Interviewee
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Gardner, Tom, Interviewer
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Murnan, Tom, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Cisco Video Conferencing System, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Richard Berreth and Tom Murnan) and Cisco Video Conferencing System, San Jose, California (Tom Gardner)
Extent
44 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
Control Data Corporation (CDC); Imprimis; Magnetic Peripheral Inc.; storage module drive (SMD); disk drive; 9760; 9762; 9766; Winchester; 3340; Storage history
Collection Title
Oral history collection