{"id":928,"date":"2013-09-19T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=928"},"modified":"2013-09-22T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T11:34:10","slug":"western-digital-corporation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=928","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Ascendant Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nDescendent Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nCompany<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Motorola<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nFounded by former Motorola employee, Alvin Phillips. Western Digital was originally called General Digital Corporation.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tandon Corporation<\/span><\/td>\nBought Tandon’s disk drive division in 1988.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Company Overview<\/h2>\n

Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970. Today, Western Digital is best known for its disk drives, however Western Digital didn’t started making disk drives until 1988. In the mid-70’s, Western Digital was the largest independent producer of calculator chips. In the 1980’s Western Digital focus moved to PC’s and developed controllers for floppy and hard disk drives. In, 1988 with the purchase of Tandon’s disk drives, Western Digital’s focused on supplying the PC industry with disk drives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Major Achievements<\/h2>\n

Key Architects of IDE and EIDE standards<\/p>\n

1st floppy disk controller, 1976
\n1st single-chip Winchester disk drive controller, 1982
\n1st Winchester disk controller board for IBM PC\/AT, 1984
\n1st two-platter, 3.5-inch, 340-megabyte drive, 1993
\n1st 3.5-inch, 1-gigabyte, 3-platter Enhanced IDE drive, 1994
\n1st 1.6-gigabyte EIDE drive, 1995<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chip Identification<\/h2>\n

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Western Digital Chips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Microprocessors<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU’s<\/span><\/td>\nMP\/MCP1600<\/a>, CP9008 (16-bit, 1Q79)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MCU’s<\/span><\/td>\nWD40 (CR2872) (4-bit,3Q77)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bit-Slice<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree \u00a0Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Motorola Founded by former Motorola employee, Alvin Phillips. Western Digital was originally called General Digital Corporation. Tandon Corporation Bought Tandon’s disk drive division in 1988. Company Overview Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970. Today, Western Digital is best known for its disk drives, however … <\/p>\n

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