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If you mean Alan Shugart, then it was the floppy disk. An 8 inch inexpensive disk with a capacity of 80,000 bytes used for loading System/370 microcode.

A few years later Alan left IBM to start his own floppy company, making many improvements both increasing storage capacity and reducing size.

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