Shugart 5.25-Inch Disk Drive
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Shugart Associates
notes: label: Description
content: In the course of the 1960s and 1970s, computer manufacturers developed diverse ways of storing data and programs on magnetic media. Expertise developed at large manufacturers like IBM found its way into more specialized firms. One such company was Shugart Associates. In 1976, the California-based company introduced the SA400 disk drive for reading and storing information from 5 ¼” floppy disks.
label: Description
content: A mark on a tag on the bottom front of the drive reads: SHUGART ASSOCIATES (/) MODEL NO. 400 MINIFLOPPY (/) VOLT NA FREQ NA Hz (/) SERIAL NO. 000004 (/) MADE IN U.S.A. This example has no case.
label: Description
content: This is the fourth SA400 that the firm produced. The drive sold both as a standalone unit and as part of microcomputers offered by other companies. By 1982 Shugart had shipped over a million units.
label: Description
content: For related materials see 1980.0612.01.3 (a press release on Shugart Associates) and drawings 1982.0385.02 through 1982.0385.10. For another Shugart SA400 disk drive received at the same time, see 1982.3017.
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content: References:
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content: Accession file.
label: Description
content: "Background: Shugart Associates," September 1979, 1980.0612.01.3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Sunnyvale
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Shugart Associates
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0385.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0385.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0385
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (frame, wiring material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (boards, components, latch material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.8 cm x 15 cm x 21.5 cm; 3 15/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 8 15/32 in