Title
Dee Richard oral historyCatalog Number
102740236Type
Moving imageDescription
This is one in a series of oral histories taken by the Computer History Museum’s Storage SIG on the history of magnetic tape recording.Today’s session focuses on the career of Dr. Richard Dee, PhD, a physicist originally active in superconductivity who joined Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek, STK) in 1982 to work on magnetoresistive (MR) heads for STK’s future tape drives. He was a key technical contributor to the development of STK’s 18 track MR head compatible to and in some ways superior to the MR heads of IBMs 3480 tape drive; it shipped in 1985 in the STK 4480 tape drive. Dee continued at STK until 2008 working on multi-element heads for a variety of STK tape drives including what is likely the first terabyte tape drives, the STK T10000, Dee left STK in 2008 to joined Quantum as a tape technologist where he contributed to tape drive design and standards promulgated by the LTO Consortium.
Dee currently assists in physics labs at the University of Colorado and occasionally consults in the storage industry.
Date
2017-10-09Participants
| Dee, Richard, Interviewee |
| Gardner, Tom, Interviewer |
Publisher
Computer History MuseumPlace of Publication
Superior, CODuration
02:21:24Format
MOVCategory
Oral historyCollection Title
CHM Oral History CollectionCredit
Computer History MuseumLot Number
X8363.2018Related Records
| 102740235 | Dee Richard oral history |