Trivia Help Needed

[Googer]

Trivia Question:
Who released the first hard drive that
incorporated perpendicular recording
technology?

Answer:
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Maxtor
Samsung
Seagate
Toshiba
Western Digital

 

[corkyg]

PRT

Is this considered neffing?

1898

>>>Perpendicular recording was first demonstrated in the late 19th century by Danish scientist Valdemar Poulsen, the first person to demonstrate that sound could be recorded magnetically. Advances in perpendicular recording were sporadic until 1976 when Dr. Shun-ichi Iwasaki ? president and chief director of the prestigious Tohoku Institute of Technology in Japan and generally considered the father of modern perpendicular recording ? verified distinct density advantages in perpendicular recording. His work laid the foundation for more aggressive perpendicular recording research that continued even as the industry made advances in areal density using longitudinal recording.<<<

 

[Noubourne]

Seagate.

 

[Bateluer]

Seagate

 

[PsYcHoCoW]

I remember watching the "Get perpendicular" video from Hitachi a while ago, and I was surprised because they weren't the first to come up with this kind of hard drive. I believe Seagate first used the technique in a notebook drive (which was like 120GB or 160GB), and then in its 750GB 3.5" drive...

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Seagate

I think it was toshiba, their 2.5 inch 40GB micro hdd was launched in to the marketplace before the Seagate 7200.9 was released.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Seagate!

 

[EagleEye]

AFAIK Seagate's 750gb hd was the first hd to incorporate pr tech.

 

[corkyg]

The first computer storage using perpendicular technology was by IBM. Here's the tech paper on it.

IBM

Seagate released the first commercial HDD product. The answer depends on how "released" is defined.

>>>"INRECOUNTING the history of perpendicular recording for magnetic disk data storage, I will primarily focus on an IBM development project called the Advanced Disk File (ADF). The disk-drive product that emerged was the IBM 1301, which was the first disk drive to embody a flying head per surface, making it the actual precursor of all subsequent disk drives. The historical importance of this drive is that it was the first to support
real time online transaction processing, a capability which revolutionized the computer industry." <<<

This took place in 1955! Seagat e was not even born yet!

 

[Pariah]

Toshiba was the first to market, with a 1.8" microdrive, followed by Seagate with the first 2.5" (Momentus 5400.3), followed by Seagate again with the first 3.5" (Barracuda 10), and presumably followed by Seagate yet again with the first SCSI drive when it is released (Cheetah 15k.5).