A GMR Heads oral history panel was held at the Computer History Museum, Mountain view, California, in May 2019. It celebrated the introduction of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) heads in hard disk drives in 1997, which has been a key is sustaining the growth rate of areal density in magnetic recording. The panel featured four colleagues who developed the spin-valve design at IBM in the early 1990’s: Virgil Speriosu, Bruce Gurney, Bernard Dieny from Spintec, and Mustafa Pinarbasi.
The transcript as well as video are available from the Computer History Museum.
