approx. what temperature causes pain to human skin?

[Guest]

This guy doesn't have a clue about HDs and engineering.

Do you?

He proved you wrong, more than once, when you said HD makers didn't say "ambient."

 

[J. Clarke]

Do you?

He proved you wrong, more than once, when you said HD makers didn't say
"ambient."

I suspect that Ron would tell Al Shugart that he didn't have a clue about
HDs and engineering.

 

[Marc de Vries]

If you object to Seagate's statement then don't tell me, tell Seagate. In
any case, they got to that.

No, I don't object to it. It just wasn't clear to me that you didn't
either.

You're quibbling over a word here. What word would you use to describe a
statement which provides additional information to that provided by a
previous statement?

Ah, I misunderstood you then.
I thought you meant that Seagate retracted/changed their statement.

English is not my native language, so I wouldn't want to tell anybody
what words they would need to use. Modify is a correct term, but it
can be misunderstood. I had to think a while for a better word, but I
guess If you had used "Then they add to that.." there wouldn't have
been any confusion.

Not that it is important, since it seems we agree on the real issue
discussed here.

Marc

 

[Marc de Vries]

I suspect that Ron would tell Al Shugart that he didn't have a clue about
HDs and engineering.

Should I be ashamed when the name Al Shugart doesn't ring a bell?

Marc

 

[J. Clarke]

Should I be ashamed when the name Al Shugart doesn't ring a bell?

He's the guy who invented the modern hard disk at IBM, founded Seagate, and
created the interface once known as "SASI" (Shugart Associates Systems
Interface) and now known as "SCSI", among other things. Google him and
you'll get a large number of hits (appearently there are some other "Al
Shugart"s around as well, so don't let that confuse you).

 

[Guest]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:05:38 -0400, "J. Clarke"


Should I be ashamed when the name Al Shugart doesn't ring a bell?

When IBM was trying to invent the disk drive back in the 1950s at
their San Jose facility, Alan Shugart was the chief engineer of the
project. He later formed a company called Shugart Associates that
built floppy disk drives and I believe also hard drives. I once saw
one of those hard drives at a surplus outlet, and I believe it had a
capacity of 14MB and a disk of maybe 8-12" in diameter, housed in
clear plastic. He then left that firm to form Shugart Technology but
had to change the name because Shugart Associates threatened a
lawsuit, so he changed it to Seagate Technology.

 

[J. Clarke]

When IBM was trying to invent the disk drive back in the 1950s at
their San Jose facility, Alan Shugart was the chief engineer of the
project. He later formed a company called Shugart Associates that
built floppy disk drives and I believe also hard drives. I once saw
one of those hard drives at a surplus outlet, and I believe it had a
capacity of 14MB and a disk of maybe 8-12" in diameter, housed in
clear plastic.

I had one of those in my classroom for years--was a great show-and-tell
because of the clear case and because the mechanism was big enough to see
from the back of the room. When I left that job I debated taking it home
and decided not to. Now I kind of miss having it around.

 

[John Turco]

I had one of those in my classroom for years--was a great show-and-tell
because of the clear case and because the mechanism was big enough to see
from the back of the room. When I left that job I debated taking it home
and decided not to. Now I kind of miss having it around.

Hello, John:

Oh, and what "classroom" was that, Professor Clarke? <g>


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>

 

[J. Clarke]

Hello, John:

Oh, and what "classroom" was that, Professor Clarke? <g>

Room 205 at CCTC Flatbush.