Shugart 8-inch Disk Drive, SA900
date: label: Date made
content: 1972
label: date made
content: 1973
label: date made
content: ca 1973
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, established by Alan F. Shugart and colleagues. Shugart had worked at IBM and then Memorex; his associates had similar backgrounds. The first product of Shugart Associates, sold from about 1973, was the SA900 disk drive for 8” floppy disks. It was intended particularly for use with mainframes and minicomputers. This example is the sixth one manufactured by Shugart Associates.
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content: A tag on the front reads: SA901. A tag on the bottom reads: Shugart Associates (/) Model No. SA900 (/) Volt 115/60 Freq. 60 Hz (/) SerialNo. P0006.
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content: Also included is an SA150 diskette in envelope.
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content: The SA900 soon was surpassed by the SA800, another drive for 8” floppy disks made by Shugart.
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content: For related materials, see 1980.0612.01.1 (documentation on the SA800), 1980.0612.01.2 (documentation on the SA900), and 1980.0612.01.3 (a press release on Shugart Associates)). The collections include several later Shugart disk drives.
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content: Reference:
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content: Accession file.
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content: "Background: Shugart Associates," September 1979, 1980.0612.01.3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1980.0612.01
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0612.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0612
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer Peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case, wiring material)
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content: plastic (boards, wireing material)
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content: paper (envelope material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 25.5 cm x 36.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 10 1/32 in x 14 3/8 in