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Subject: Re: "winchester drives"
From: doug holverson <dholvrsn@netins.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:35:17 -0500
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> From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:46:45 -0500
> Subject: Re: "winchester drives"
> 
> doug holverson wrote:
> 
>> Anybody remember back to the days when hard drives were called Winchester
>> drives?
>> 
>> DGH
> 
> I'm afraid I'm that old.
> BTW - that was IBM's name for them, before they used the stuffy "fixed disk"
> term.
> 
> Roy
> 
I think that I might still have an old Compugraphic board that has a
connector strip marked "Winchester" on it.

DGH

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  - From: doug holverson <dholvrsn@netins.net>
- Re: "winchester drives"
  - From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>

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