| The Directors, the Harddrive and the Engineer... |
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The Directors, the Harddrive and the Engineer...
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12/1/2014 |
| Many years ago, I had a great lesson in how easy it is for those in charge to rely on denial when making decisions that affect the lives of those who work for them.
I was working in the test engineering department of a prominent removable hard drive company that used Bernoulli technology.
Having been very successful with their previous product, they had just released a new 5 1/4" format that provided 20 Megabytes of storage (a lot in the 1980s) but as luck would have it, drives sold to the public were failing at about a 90% rate and generally within 3 weeks. |
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