Al Hoagland
Albert S. Hoagland | |
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| Born | September 13, 1926 |
| Died | October 1, 2022 (aged 96) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | engineer, educator |
| Employer(s) | IBM, Santa Clara University |
| Spouse | Jeannine Maryse Claude Simart (m. 1950-2010) |
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Albert Smiley Hoagland ('Al Hoagland') (September 13, 1926 – October 1, 2022) had a long career on the development of hard disk drives (HDD) starting with the IBM RAMAC. From 1956 to 1984, he was with IBM in San Jose, California, and then, from 1984 to 2005, he was the director of the Institute for Information Storage Technology at Santa Clara University. He wrote the first book on Digital Magnetic Recording. Hoagland played a central role in the preservation and restoration of the IBM RAMAC now displayed at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. He died in Portland, Oregon, on 1 October 2022.