Al Hoagland
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Details
| Birthday |
13th September, 1926
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| Birthplace |
Berkeley, California
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| Died |
1st October, 2022
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| Place of Death |
Portland, Oregon
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Occupation Text |
engineer, educator
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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.
