IBM RAMAC Engineer Jack Clemens
Among those who built Silicon Valley
By Jean Jacques Maleval | December 31, 2012 at 3:08 pmTo read this article from MercuryNews.com, click on:
Cassidy: IBM RAMAC engineer Jack Clemens is among those who built Silicon Valley
It’s almost poetic that in the weeks since Jack Clemens died his family has spent some time talking about how he should be remembered. Clemens, you see, was all about memory, going back to San Jose in the 1950s when he was part of the IBM team developing the RAMAC, the precursor to the computer hard drives that we all rely on nearly every day.