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Guys, I am seeing some company employees are involved with the update & writing of this Wiki article. Does anyone have approximate info when 3 TB or larger HDDs will be released for laptops, with standard laptop HDD physical size/width? I.e. under 1 cm, and not the 14-15 mm HDDs that are available now, which won't fit into most laptops. Thanks in advance for any comments & info on this. Naki ( talk) 13:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
![]() | Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. |
Hi! It's been a few years, but I'm working with Western Digital again and have some updates to request for this article. I've broken them out by section. I'm also happy to reformat or reorganize these requests however is helpful. -- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Delete "data center systems" from second sentence, as Western Digital no longer offers data center systems ( source; also cited in proposed addition to 2010s History below).
Update final sentence with a better source, and to reflect that hard drives are no longer Western Digital's primary focus.
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I propose a full rewrite of the first four, largely unsourced subsections of this section (1970s–2000s). I've gone through the contents of this section and provided sources for as much information as I could, while revising or removing unsourced or incorrect information. Here is a full mockup of my proposed edits. Here is a mockup with all the changes to the current text highlighted and struck through. All of the changes have been made to reflect the availability of independent, secondary sources, and to align the text with Wikipedia's standards for writing and formatting. -- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Adding after In September 2017, Western Digital acquired
Tegile Systems, maker of
flash memory
storage arrays.
[3]
:
Western Digital rebranded Tegile as IntelliFlash
[4] and sold it to
DataDirect Networks in September 2019.
[5]
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Adding an introductory paragraph of context before the subsections:
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Western Digital sells hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs), and other memory devices, as well as software to support these products. In addition to client products, the company also sells data center products, including capacity and performance enterprise HDDs, enterprise SSDs,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mellor |first1=Chris |title=Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies |url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/08/05/western-digital-nvme-of-ssds/ |accessdate=9 June 2020 |work=Blocks & Files |date=5 August 2019}}</ref> [[JBOD]]/JBOF platforms,<ref>{{cite news |title=Acronis deploys Western Digital storage to meet data center demand |url=https://datacenternews.us/story/acronis-deploys-western-digital-storage-to-meet-data-center-demand |accessdate=9 June 2020 |work=DataCenterNews |date=24 March 2020}}</ref> and [[composable disaggregated infrastructure]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=James Alan |title=Hyper-converged and composable architectures transform IT |url=https://searchconvergedinfrastructure.techtarget.com/feature/Hyper-converged-and-composable-architectures-transform-IT |accessdate=10 June 2020 |work=TechTarget |date=10 February 2020}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Deleting in middle of section (poorly written and doesn't pertain to hard drives):
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
New subsection, with proposed text:
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Western Digital offers several software products for use with its hardware, including:
*WD SmartWare for automated data backup to external drives and [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cockerham |first1=Ryan |title=What Is WD SmartWare? |url=https://www.techwalla.com/13713503/whats-a-vlog |accessdate=25 January 2019 |work=Techwalla |date=31 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fingas |first1=Jon |title=WD SmartWare Pro automates backups to both Dropbox and external drives |url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/04/16/wd-smartware-pro-automates-backups-to-both-dropbox-and-hdds/ |accessdate=25 January 2019 |work=Engadget |date=16 April 2013}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Add acquisition to table:
Acquisition date | Company | Product types | Price | Refs |
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March 8, 2012 | HGST | HDD, SSD | $3.9 billion | [21] |
January 22, 2013 | Arkeia Software | Backup Software | — | |
September 12, 2013 | sTec | SSD | $340,000,000 | [22] [23] |
October 17, 2013 | Virident | SSD, system and software | $685,000,000 | [24] [25] |
March 16, 2015 | Amplidata | Software | — | [26] |
May 12, 2016 | SanDisk | SSD, system and software, NAND flash, embedded | $19 billion | [27] |
August 28, 2017 | Upthere | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [28] |
September 2017 | Tegile | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [29] [30] |
September 11, 2019 | Kazan Networks | Flash storage technology | — | [31] |
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|- scope="row" | {{dts|2019|09|11}} | Kazan Networks | Flash storage technology | — | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Kovar |first1=Joseph F. |title=Western Digital Acquires NVMe-oF Startup Kazan |url=https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/western-digital-acquires-nvme-of-startup-kazan |accessdate=20 March 2020 |work=CRN |date=11 September 2019}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
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Due to my COI, I won't be editing the article directly. Thank you for any help or feedback you can share! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi! Per the feedback above, starting a new discussion to share my proposed updates to the "History" section of this article in more granular detail. Starting with the 1970s subsection, here are the edits I propose to the current article text:
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Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. [1] It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric. Around July 1971, it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART. The company was financed by Emerson Electric and investors, to sell calculator chips through the early years of the 1970s, and by 1975, Western Digital was the largest independent calculator chip maker in the world. The oil crisis of the mid-1970s and the bankruptcy of its biggest calculator customer, Bowmar Instrument, [2] changed its fortunes, however, and in 1976 Western Digital declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After this, Emerson Electric withdrew their support of the company. Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the MCP-1600 multi-chip, microcoded CPU. The MCP-1600 was used to implement DEC's LSI-11 system and their own Pascal MicroEngine microcomputer which ran the UCSD p-System Version III and UCSD Pascal. However, the WD integrated circuit that arguably drove Western's forward integration was the FD1771, [3] one of the first single-chip floppy disk drive formatter/controllers, which could replace significant amounts of TTL logic. |
Alvin B. Phillips founded Western Digital
Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the
MCP-1600 multi-chip,
microcoded
CPU. The MCP-1600 was used to implement |
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Alvin B. Phillips founded Western Digital in 1970 as General Digital.<ref>{{cite news |title=Where in the World Wide Web Is Al Phillips? |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/where-in-the-world-wide-web-is-al-phillips |accessdate=2 January 2019 |work=IEEE Spectrum |date=1 May 2009}}</ref><ref name="Farrance">{{cite news |last1=Farrance |first1=Rex |title=Timeline: 50 Years of Hard Drives |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html |accessdate=2 January 2019 |work=PCWorld |date=13 September 2006}}</ref> The company initially manufactured [[computer chips]], particularly [[calculator]] chips, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant [[Emerson Electric]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Robin |title=Western Digital shakes up data storage |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/wd-shakes-up-data-storage/ |accessdate=3 January 2019 |work=ZDNet |date=28 June 2018}}</ref> One year later, the company adopted its current name<ref name="Funding Universe">{{cite web |title=Western Digital Corp. History |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/western-digital-corp-history/ |website=Funding Universe |accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> and introduced the WD1402A, the first single-chip [[universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter]] (UART).<ref>{{cite news |title=Chip Hall of Fame: Western Digital WD1402A UART |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-western-digital-wd1402a-uart |accessdate=3 January 2019 |work=IEEE Spectrum |date=30 June 2017}}</ref> Later that decade, the company debuted a 4K [[Random Access Memories|RAM]] chip.<ref name="Funding Universe"/> Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the [[MCP-1600]] multi-chip, [[microcode]]d [[Central processing unit|CPU]]. The MCP-1600 was used to implement [[Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation's]] [[PDP-11|LSI-11]] system.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Western Digital adds MCP-1600 Micro |journal=Computerworld |date=26 November 1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMHHJQxdDHYC&pg=RA1-PA26 |page=26 |accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> The processor was also used in several single-chip [[floppy disk]] drive controller chips, including notably the [[Western Digital FD1771|FD1771]].<ref name = "Computer Oct 1976">{{Cite journal |last=Michalopoulos |first=Demetrios A |title=New Products: Single-chip floppy disk formatter/controller |journal=Computer |volume=9 |issue=10 |page=64 |date=October 1976 |doi=10.1109/C-M.1976.218414}}"The FD1771 is a single-chip floppy disk formatter/controller that interfaces with most available disk drives and virtually all types of computers."</ref> |
Here's a clean preview of the new text I propose. Here's a rundown of the individual edits:
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More citations needed}}
section templateAs always, I won't be editing the article directly due to my COI. Happy to reformat these requests however is helpful. @ P,TO 19104, A D Monroe III, Hubcapp, and Barkeep49: Notifying you since you've all been involved in reviewing my recent edit requests. Thank you for any help or feedback! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 16:54, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
"In May 1976, the fist of a series of financial problems that would eventually drive Western Digital into bankruptcy was disclosed. Electronic News, May 10, 1976:58. The firm blamed losses of $433,000 for the first 1976 quarter on technical problems in its microprocessor and 4K DRAM programs." https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_International_Dynamic_Random_Access/A_e1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22into%20bankruptcy%22
"HISTORY Western Digital was founded in 1970 as a manufacturer of specialized semiconductors and electronic calculators. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 1976. However, it reorganized and emerged successfully in 1978 ." Hoover's Handbook of American Business. United States: Reference Press, Incorporated, 1998, page 1514
"[W]hen it lost its main customer Bowmar Instrument in 1976 it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. However at the same time the company was saved by innovating the WD 1771, the first single-chip floppy disk controller. " https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Competitiveness_of_Clusters_in_Globa/lr5YCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1976+%22western+digital%22+bankruptcy&pg=PT205&printsec=frontcover
Graywalls ( talk) 16:21, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
@ MaryGaulke:, In case you're not watching the page. Graywalls ( talk) 06:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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flag by either adding sources or removing unsourced information. Clearly, I did an inadequate job searching for alternative sources for the bankruptcy, and for that I apologize. (I'm sure I attempted it at the time, but my skill in these matters is always improving with additional experience, as with any Wikipedian.)References
Rewording first sentence in active voice; that is one reason for one change. Following that, where changes are done per sources given, perhaps present each source and detail what it says first, and leave off suggesting any detail on what specific edit to make. I and my fellow experienced WP editors are quite capable of taking it from there, avoiding any COI worries.
Where are WD production plants located? -- 0dorkmann ( talk) 11:40, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
@ 58.145.191.253 ( talk) 20:41, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
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Guys, I am seeing some company employees are involved with the update & writing of this Wiki article. Does anyone have approximate info when 3 TB or larger HDDs will be released for laptops, with standard laptop HDD physical size/width? I.e. under 1 cm, and not the 14-15 mm HDDs that are available now, which won't fit into most laptops. Thanks in advance for any comments & info on this. Naki ( talk) 13:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
![]() | Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. |
Hi! It's been a few years, but I'm working with Western Digital again and have some updates to request for this article. I've broken them out by section. I'm also happy to reformat or reorganize these requests however is helpful. -- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Delete "data center systems" from second sentence, as Western Digital no longer offers data center systems ( source; also cited in proposed addition to 2010s History below).
Update final sentence with a better source, and to reflect that hard drives are no longer Western Digital's primary focus.
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I propose a full rewrite of the first four, largely unsourced subsections of this section (1970s–2000s). I've gone through the contents of this section and provided sources for as much information as I could, while revising or removing unsourced or incorrect information. Here is a full mockup of my proposed edits. Here is a mockup with all the changes to the current text highlighted and struck through. All of the changes have been made to reflect the availability of independent, secondary sources, and to align the text with Wikipedia's standards for writing and formatting. -- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Adding after In September 2017, Western Digital acquired
Tegile Systems, maker of
flash memory
storage arrays.
[3]
:
Western Digital rebranded Tegile as IntelliFlash
[4] and sold it to
DataDirect Networks in September 2019.
[5]
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Adding an introductory paragraph of context before the subsections:
code for copying
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Western Digital sells hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs), and other memory devices, as well as software to support these products. In addition to client products, the company also sells data center products, including capacity and performance enterprise HDDs, enterprise SSDs,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mellor |first1=Chris |title=Western Digital upgrades NVMe SSDs, recruits composable allies |url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/08/05/western-digital-nvme-of-ssds/ |accessdate=9 June 2020 |work=Blocks & Files |date=5 August 2019}}</ref> [[JBOD]]/JBOF platforms,<ref>{{cite news |title=Acronis deploys Western Digital storage to meet data center demand |url=https://datacenternews.us/story/acronis-deploys-western-digital-storage-to-meet-data-center-demand |accessdate=9 June 2020 |work=DataCenterNews |date=24 March 2020}}</ref> and [[composable disaggregated infrastructure]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=James Alan |title=Hyper-converged and composable architectures transform IT |url=https://searchconvergedinfrastructure.techtarget.com/feature/Hyper-converged-and-composable-architectures-transform-IT |accessdate=10 June 2020 |work=TechTarget |date=10 February 2020}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Deleting in middle of section (poorly written and doesn't pertain to hard drives):
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
New subsection, with proposed text:
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Western Digital offers several software products for use with its hardware, including:
*WD SmartWare for automated data backup to external drives and [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cockerham |first1=Ryan |title=What Is WD SmartWare? |url=https://www.techwalla.com/13713503/whats-a-vlog |accessdate=25 January 2019 |work=Techwalla |date=31 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fingas |first1=Jon |title=WD SmartWare Pro automates backups to both Dropbox and external drives |url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/04/16/wd-smartware-pro-automates-backups-to-both-dropbox-and-hdds/ |accessdate=25 January 2019 |work=Engadget |date=16 April 2013}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Add acquisition to table:
Acquisition date | Company | Product types | Price | Refs |
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March 8, 2012 | HGST | HDD, SSD | $3.9 billion | [21] |
January 22, 2013 | Arkeia Software | Backup Software | — | |
September 12, 2013 | sTec | SSD | $340,000,000 | [22] [23] |
October 17, 2013 | Virident | SSD, system and software | $685,000,000 | [24] [25] |
March 16, 2015 | Amplidata | Software | — | [26] |
May 12, 2016 | SanDisk | SSD, system and software, NAND flash, embedded | $19 billion | [27] |
August 28, 2017 | Upthere | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [28] |
September 2017 | Tegile | Flash, persistent, cloud services | — | [29] [30] |
September 11, 2019 | Kazan Networks | Flash storage technology | — | [31] |
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|- scope="row" | {{dts|2019|09|11}} | Kazan Networks | Flash storage technology | — | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Kovar |first1=Joseph F. |title=Western Digital Acquires NVMe-oF Startup Kazan |url=https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/western-digital-acquires-nvme-of-startup-kazan |accessdate=20 March 2020 |work=CRN |date=11 September 2019}}</ref> |
-- Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
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References
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Due to my COI, I won't be editing the article directly. Thank you for any help or feedback you can share! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 14:05, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hi! Per the feedback above, starting a new discussion to share my proposed updates to the "History" section of this article in more granular detail. Starting with the 1970s subsection, here are the edits I propose to the current article text:
Current article text | Proposed revision | ||||
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Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. [1] It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric. Around July 1971, it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART. The company was financed by Emerson Electric and investors, to sell calculator chips through the early years of the 1970s, and by 1975, Western Digital was the largest independent calculator chip maker in the world. The oil crisis of the mid-1970s and the bankruptcy of its biggest calculator customer, Bowmar Instrument, [2] changed its fortunes, however, and in 1976 Western Digital declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After this, Emerson Electric withdrew their support of the company. Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the MCP-1600 multi-chip, microcoded CPU. The MCP-1600 was used to implement DEC's LSI-11 system and their own Pascal MicroEngine microcomputer which ran the UCSD p-System Version III and UCSD Pascal. However, the WD integrated circuit that arguably drove Western's forward integration was the FD1771, [3] one of the first single-chip floppy disk drive formatter/controllers, which could replace significant amounts of TTL logic. |
Alvin B. Phillips founded Western Digital
Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the
MCP-1600 multi-chip,
microcoded
CPU. The MCP-1600 was used to implement |
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Alvin B. Phillips founded Western Digital in 1970 as General Digital.<ref>{{cite news |title=Where in the World Wide Web Is Al Phillips? |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/where-in-the-world-wide-web-is-al-phillips |accessdate=2 January 2019 |work=IEEE Spectrum |date=1 May 2009}}</ref><ref name="Farrance">{{cite news |last1=Farrance |first1=Rex |title=Timeline: 50 Years of Hard Drives |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html |accessdate=2 January 2019 |work=PCWorld |date=13 September 2006}}</ref> The company initially manufactured [[computer chips]], particularly [[calculator]] chips, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant [[Emerson Electric]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=Robin |title=Western Digital shakes up data storage |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/wd-shakes-up-data-storage/ |accessdate=3 January 2019 |work=ZDNet |date=28 June 2018}}</ref> One year later, the company adopted its current name<ref name="Funding Universe">{{cite web |title=Western Digital Corp. History |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/western-digital-corp-history/ |website=Funding Universe |accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> and introduced the WD1402A, the first single-chip [[universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter]] (UART).<ref>{{cite news |title=Chip Hall of Fame: Western Digital WD1402A UART |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/chip-hall-of-fame-western-digital-wd1402a-uart |accessdate=3 January 2019 |work=IEEE Spectrum |date=30 June 2017}}</ref> Later that decade, the company debuted a 4K [[Random Access Memories|RAM]] chip.<ref name="Funding Universe"/> Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the [[MCP-1600]] multi-chip, [[microcode]]d [[Central processing unit|CPU]]. The MCP-1600 was used to implement [[Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation's]] [[PDP-11|LSI-11]] system.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Western Digital adds MCP-1600 Micro |journal=Computerworld |date=26 November 1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMHHJQxdDHYC&pg=RA1-PA26 |page=26 |accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> The processor was also used in several single-chip [[floppy disk]] drive controller chips, including notably the [[Western Digital FD1771|FD1771]].<ref name = "Computer Oct 1976">{{Cite journal |last=Michalopoulos |first=Demetrios A |title=New Products: Single-chip floppy disk formatter/controller |journal=Computer |volume=9 |issue=10 |page=64 |date=October 1976 |doi=10.1109/C-M.1976.218414}}"The FD1771 is a single-chip floppy disk formatter/controller that interfaces with most available disk drives and virtually all types of computers."</ref> |
Here's a clean preview of the new text I propose. Here's a rundown of the individual edits:
{{
More citations needed}}
section templateAs always, I won't be editing the article directly due to my COI. Happy to reformat these requests however is helpful. @ P,TO 19104, A D Monroe III, Hubcapp, and Barkeep49: Notifying you since you've all been involved in reviewing my recent edit requests. Thank you for any help or feedback! Mary Gaulke ( talk) 16:54, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
"In May 1976, the fist of a series of financial problems that would eventually drive Western Digital into bankruptcy was disclosed. Electronic News, May 10, 1976:58. The firm blamed losses of $433,000 for the first 1976 quarter on technical problems in its microprocessor and 4K DRAM programs." https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_International_Dynamic_Random_Access/A_e1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22into%20bankruptcy%22
"HISTORY Western Digital was founded in 1970 as a manufacturer of specialized semiconductors and electronic calculators. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 1976. However, it reorganized and emerged successfully in 1978 ." Hoover's Handbook of American Business. United States: Reference Press, Incorporated, 1998, page 1514
"[W]hen it lost its main customer Bowmar Instrument in 1976 it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. However at the same time the company was saved by innovating the WD 1771, the first single-chip floppy disk controller. " https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Competitiveness_of_Clusters_in_Globa/lr5YCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1976+%22western+digital%22+bankruptcy&pg=PT205&printsec=frontcover
Graywalls ( talk) 16:21, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
@ MaryGaulke:, In case you're not watching the page. Graywalls ( talk) 06:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
References
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (
link)
{{
more citations needed}}
flag by either adding sources or removing unsourced information. Clearly, I did an inadequate job searching for alternative sources for the bankruptcy, and for that I apologize. (I'm sure I attempted it at the time, but my skill in these matters is always improving with additional experience, as with any Wikipedian.)References
Rewording first sentence in active voice; that is one reason for one change. Following that, where changes are done per sources given, perhaps present each source and detail what it says first, and leave off suggesting any detail on what specific edit to make. I and my fellow experienced WP editors are quite capable of taking it from there, avoiding any COI worries.
Where are WD production plants located? -- 0dorkmann ( talk) 11:40, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
@ 58.145.191.253 ( talk) 20:41, 18 April 2023 (UTC)