Date:         Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:35:47 -0800
Reply-To:     "William W. Viergever" <william@VIERGEVER.NET>
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From:         "William W. Viergever" <william@VIERGEVER.NET>
Subject:      OT: RIP Al Shugart
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of
Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died.

He was 76.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2072401,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL121406EOAD


this guy was a trip ... a little more from the article:


>Several years later, he founded Shugart Associates, an early
>developer of the floppy disk drive, a device that helped usher in
>the personal computing era by allowing comparatively large amounts
>of data to be stored on a removable source.
>
>In 1974, Shugart's backers fired him and, almost broke, he moved to
>Santa Cruz, opened a bar and bought a salmon-fishing boat, according
>to BusinessWeek. "I had a tough time meeting my Porsche payments,"
>he told the magazine in a profile in 1996.
>
>Shugart, an avid surfer who had for years lived in Pebble Beach,
>California, is survived by his wife Rita, four daughters, one son,
>and seven grandchildren ...




all i have to add to this is ...

Porsche, There is No Substitute!!

out




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