Sunday, May 23, 2010

Daily Trivia # 273


Identify the person in the image and give apt connections with the other two images ?
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5 comments:

  1. Al Shugart... One of the foundrs of seagate, below is the seagate logo.
    Their first product ws a 5 mb HDD, n was termed as a 'mini floppy' drive. And on right is a Floppy disk drive.

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  2. The logo is that of Seagate Technologies, whose co-founder is Alan Shugart(in pic). The ST-506 is a 5.25 inch form hard disk drive, the first of its kind introduced by Seagate.

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  3. tsk..tsk....error in last connect....3rd pic is floppy disk.....the ST-506, seagate's 1st product which was based on the floppy disk drive interface

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  4. Alan Shugart is the man in the picture.
    Founder of the seagate, and was related with the invention of the floppy drive.

    Too easy for a computer buff, catch up dude.

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  5. The connect that I was actually looking for is Alan Shugart whose Shugart Associates developed the floppy disk technology. He was also the CEO of Seagate Technology during which the company went from strength to strength.

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