| 1953 | IBM's Board Cancels Disk File Project | |||
| An example of corporate management's focus on current products and customers to the potential detriment of future opportunities | ||||
| Status: | Completed, SIG reviewed 12/7/2011 | |||
| 1953 | Myth about use of Golden Gate Bridge Paint on RAMAC disks |
| An example of an urban legend about the RAMAC program |
| Status: | Completed, SIG reviewed 12/7/2011 |
| 1967 | Caelus Memories |
| An early plug compatible disk pack manufacturer founded as a spin-out from IBM San Jose |
| 1970 | Disk Drive Patent |
| US 3,503,060 arising from the RAMAC program is generally considered to be the fundamental patent for disk drives. |
| Status: | Approved SIG meeting February 29, 2012 |
| 1970's | IBM Plug Compatible Failures |
| A number of companies entered the 2314 and 3330 plug compatible market with big intentions and spending many R&D dollars |
| 1972 | DEC RK05 |
| First Digital moving head disk drive |
| Status: | Approved SIG meeting 6/20/2012 |
| 1983 | DEC RA60 |
| Last disk pack disk drive Last not Winchester head technology i.e., relatively high mass and highly loaded head |
| 1983 | CDC 9270 (Cricket) |
| Third sub 5.25" HDD, it was a technological failure |
| 1983 | Shugart/Quantum 5.25" Transition |
| The two dominant companies in the 8" HDD market of the early 1980's failed to succeed with their 5.25" products, the SA600 and Q500 respectively, loosing the market to Seagate, MiniScribe and CMI. |
| 1985 | CMI 6426 |
| Drive technical problems impact IBM PC/AT acceptance |
| 1990 | MiniScribe files bancruptcy |
| An interesting study of management and corruption in the disk drive industry |
| circa 1990 | 2.5 inch laptop drives |
| No reason given |
| Status: | Reviewed, SIG meeting 6/20/2012 |
| 1996 | Conner Acquired By Seagate |
| Failure of a leading HDD Company |
| 2001 | MarQlin |
| Marqlin was the originator of the 1 inch drive in Compact Flash form-factor |
| N/A | FDD contributions to HDD |
| not stated |
| Status: | Reviewed, SIG Meeting 6/20/2012 |
| N/a | Disk coating |
| not stated |
| Status: | Reviewed, SIG Meeting 6/20/2012 |
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- 1970's IBM Plug Compatible Failures
- 2.5 inch laptop drives
- Caelus Memories
- CDC 9270 (Cricket)
- Conner Acquired By Seagate
- DEC RA60
- DEC RK05
- Diablo 30 Series
- FDD contributions to HDD
- Marqlin
- Metallic Disk Recording Media Survey
- MiniScribe files bancruptcy
- Oxide Disk Recording Media Survey
- PCMCIA form factor
- Shugart/Quantum 5.25" Transition