Artifact Details

Title

Ouchi, Ken oral history

Catalog Number

102740119

Type

Moving image

Description

Interview of Ken Ouchi, who at IBM San Jose designed the computer industry's first RAID-based storage system in 1974, 14 years before the concept was named and widely published at UC Berkeley. A fully working version of the prototype, based on IBM 3330 front-end and 3350 back-end disk drives, was built and tested in 1976. While not productized, it was patented: "System for recovering data stored in failed memory unit," US 4,092,732. Ken later became an influential leader at Solectron, a global manufacturing company that built printed circuit cards for many Silicon Valley firms in the 1980s.

Date

2015-06-10

Participants

Fortier, James, videographer
Garner, Robert, interviewer
Ouchi, Ken, interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Duration

01:57:11

Format

MOV

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Oral history

Subject

1130; 360; Evans, Bob; Inmos transputer; manufacturing and test; Solectron; Japanese internment camp; Patterson, David; Ouchi, Ken; IBM San Jose; error correction codes; Redundant array of independent disks (RAID); disk drive; IBM; 3330; 3350; 3850

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X7519.2015
 

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