A Ferrari-powered ERA Cobra...?

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by PDUB

...actually, I was involved in a startup with him... though I never met him. He tried to shellac us! Seems he tried to depress the value to acquire our technology. He got run out on a rail! I ended up losing my shirt in the deal, and it has delayed my Cobra project for years and years...



but it was an amazing adventure while it lasted! Almost a movie script kind-of experience.

The shenanigans that went on in the hard drive industry make Shelby's repainting the one car look angelic. Remember that Maxtor shipped bricks, literally, bricks, in boxes to a warehouse to claim shipments in one quarter.

There is an article on Wikipedia that shows the mergers and acquisitions that result in three hard drive companies today and they are collapsing with the takeover of solid state drives in almost all consumer products. Very few laptops use HDDs any more as SSDs are at 2TB capacity...

I built the world's first 1GB 3.5" HDD at DEC which got DEC into the OEM business competing head to head with Seagate. Then at Maxtor I was a principal team member that invented Serial ATA (SATA) and I moved to Seagate where we shipped the first SATA (with bridge) drive and 6 months later the first fully integrated SATA drive a year ahead of the competition.