Alan Shugart, Flopy Drive Inventor Passes Away

HockeyPuck writes: Alan Shugart, the co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC, has died, the company said Wednesday. He was 76. Prior to founding Seagate, he was employed at IBM, where among the several groups reporting to Shugart was the team that invented the floppy disk. Shugart helped pioneer the multibillion dollar hard drive industry. He founded Seagate in 1979 and left in 1998.
For more information see: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_hi_te/ob it_shugart and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shugart