Alan F. Shugart
<person> The man who founded Shugart Associates and later co-founded Seagate Technology.
Alan Shugart left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?] and took a break from the disk-drive business.
In 1979, he and Finis Conner founded a new company that at first was called Shugart Technology and later Seagate Technology.



