< 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 .
(2000-02-09)