Oral History of Mark Kryder
Oral History of Mark Kryder Interviewed by: Chris Bajorek Recorded April 14, 2017 Boston, MA CHM Reference number: X8165.2017 © 2017 Computer History Museum Oral History of Mark Kryder Bajorek: This oral history records Professor Kryder’s contributions in three areas: the establishment of one of the most successful data storage, joint university industry and government research centers in the United States at Carnegie Mellon University; his tenure as chief technology officer at Seagate; and his contributions as an individual and leader to the advancement of data storage technology especially prototyping, development and commercialization of perpendicular magnetic recording, full disk encryption and heat assisted magnetic recording. I’d like us to start, Professor Kryder by having you tell us about your family background, where you were born, where you grew up and which schools have you attended. Kryder: All right. Well, I grew up out in a little town called Milwaukie, Oregon. Not Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but Milwaukie, Oregon. And, actually, I lived well outside of Milwaukie, Oregon. Our address was Milwaukie, Oregon, but we lived in a rural area outside the town. Milwaukie, Oregon at that time had about 5,000 people in it, but I was probably five to ten miles outside of Milwaukie itself. We had about five acres of land, all wooded. That was the mid-forties. My dad was an electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power Administration, which supplies most all of the hydroelectric power in Oregon. He built our house. Not in the way people talk about building houses today or having your house built.
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