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A great personal comment from the article that reminds how the early pioneers of technology (magnetic storage, the first hard drive) got it done. "Walking on w
by wallflower 12y ago
A great personal comment from the article that reminds how the early pioneers of technology (magnetic storage, the first hard drive) got it done.
"Walking on water We have a picture of my father, Jack Harker, walking on water in front of the sculpture. He was manager of "The Labs" and was working with manufacturing to introduce their first Winchester disk drive. The technology was not moving successfully from the lab to the manufacturing floor. There were tremendous technical problems in mass producing the drives. Manufacturing gave a very aggressive schedule for solving the problems. My father replied that if they could meet the schedule, he would walk on water.
Manufacturing meet the schedule and the disk drives were delivered. My father had a plywood platform built just under the surface of the reflecting pool. True to his word, there he was walking on water with the sculpture in the background.
A picture I did not understand fully until after his death.
Jack Harker, one of the fathers of the disk drive industry, a manager's manager, a great dad.
Peace dad, Robert Harker"