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Re: "winchester drives"
- Subject: Re: "winchester drives"
- From: "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:41:32 -0500
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B I N G O ! ! !
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
Good answer,
Jason Whorton
"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote in message
news:IOt47.15702$JN6.3375443@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com...
> 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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> William R. Strutts - wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com - Whatever!
>
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>
> Just hacking away...
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> "doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
> B77526B5.6DB5C%dholvrsn@netins.net">news:B77526B5.6DB5C%dholvrsn@netins.net...
> > Anybody remember back to the days when hard drives were called
Winchester
> > drives?
> >
> > DGH
> >
>
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