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From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:10:16 GMT
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Found this definition on the web.

"The term Winchester comes from an early type of disk drive developed
by IBM that stored 30MB (megabytes) and had a 30-millisecond
access time; so its inventors called it a Winchester in honor of its
30/30 rifle."

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"doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
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> Anybody remember back to the days when hard drives were called Winchester
> drives?
>
> DGH
>

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