The history of the double sided floppy given under oath

I sent this to my friend Shrikant who worked at Shugart back during this time and this is how he replied: "Yes, I demonstrated and explained the reason why but the decision to use Tandon's technology was a business decision. We swapped the licenses for Tandon's "Bi-compliant" head actuator patent and Xerox/Shugart's "Band Actuator" patent of Warren Dalziel "I will explain more to you when I return.. "One lesson to learn from this episode was that as Goethe said in Faust and I only paraphrase him: One has to work to make one's own what we inherit from our forefathers. "In context of Shugart, the "Tri-compliant" design a la IBM was implemented without knowing its subtleties and slider/spring behaviour. I think Shugart did learn the lesson as far as egos would permit." I'll post the remainder of his reply when I receive it. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]