McCoy, Jim (James) oral history
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.
Item Details
- Date
- 2005-10-03 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102657936
- Other identifying number
- OHP 181 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Yan Rosenshteyn (Videographer)
James Porter (Interviewer)
James McCoy (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 21 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X3273.2006
- Subject
- IBM, Shugart Associates, Quantum, Maxtor, Singapore, Storage History
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection