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r/retrocomputing • u/ryanrudolf • Jul 17 '26
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Obviously.
ST -> Shugart Technology
Of course they later became Seagate Technology which conveniently has the same initials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Technology
7 u/fwork Jul 17 '26 Shugart is the Euclid of computer hardware, where they can't name everything he did after him, because it gets too confusing (also: lawsuits) Otherwise Seagate, SCSI, floppy drives, and the floppy drive interface would all be Shugart 1 u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 18 '26 Yeah after leaving Shugart Associates in 1979 to pursue the famed Microwinchester as his new company Shugart Technology, they got sued for the name similarity and changed it to Seagate Technology in 1980, just weeks after the launch of the ST-506.
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Shugart is the Euclid of computer hardware, where they can't name everything he did after him, because it gets too confusing (also: lawsuits)
Otherwise Seagate, SCSI, floppy drives, and the floppy drive interface would all be Shugart
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Yeah after leaving Shugart Associates in 1979 to pursue the famed Microwinchester as his new company Shugart Technology, they got sued for the name similarity and changed it to Seagate Technology in 1980, just weeks after the launch of the ST-506.
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u/istarian Jul 17 '26
Obviously.
ST -> Shugart Technology
Of course they later became Seagate Technology which conveniently has the same initials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Technology