company A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded

in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and

Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the

5.25" hard disk drive. They changed the name to Seagate

Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid

friction with Xerox, which had since purchased Alan's

earlier company, Shugart Associates.