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Re: Disk Drive Pioneer Al Sugart Dies

Dave Garland (dave.garland@wizinfo.com)
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:19:30 -0600

It was a dark and stormy night when hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> I understand IBM sold off its hard disk drive line recently; I don't
> know why. Peripherals used to be quite profitable.

Whether there's a connection or not, I don't know. But they sold the
line to Hitachi shortly after what appeared to be defects in their
60GXP and 75GXP models of drives. These "DeskStar" drives had become
widely known as "DeathStar" drives, due to drive failures.

Dave

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