final book al hoagland - Archive Server - Computer History Museum
final book al hoagland - Archive Server - Computer History Museum
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
My go<strong>al</strong> in writing this memoir was to share my unique perspective of the ch<strong>al</strong>lenges and<br />
achievements in the development of magnetic disk storage technology. This perspective<br />
is that of a PhD engineering student at U.C. Berkeley (1948 to 1956), a researcher for<br />
IBM (1956 to 1984), the director of the Institute for Information Storage Technology<br />
(IIST) at Santa Clara University (1984 to 2005), and the founder and director of the<br />
Magnetic Disk Heritage Center.<br />
I would like to thank the <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>Museum</strong>, notably Dag Spicer, for their<br />
support. More comfortable with technic<strong>al</strong> detail, I found it quite ch<strong>al</strong>lenging to write for a<br />
lay audience. In this, Nicole Hoagland, my daughter, was an inv<strong>al</strong>uable editor in helping<br />
me achieve my go<strong>al</strong>.<br />
I am <strong>al</strong>so grateful for the help and support of many over the years. I would like to thank<br />
Kiki Dembrow, Santa Clara University, and Olga Shchennikova for their v<strong>al</strong>uable input<br />
and encouragement when I first undertook the writing of this memoir.<br />
Albert S. Hoagland<br />
June 18, 2011<br />
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