Re: "winchester drives"

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

I always heard the drives were called "winchester drives" because the 
original drives were model 3030...

Jason Whorton wrote:
> 
> OK, you got the IBM part right, but why did they use the term "Winchester"?
> :-)
> 
> Thank you,
> Jason Whorton
> 
> "Roy Miller" <millers@inebraska.com> wrote in message
> 3B4FCEAE.957BE2A0@inebraska.com">news:3B4FCEAE.957BE2A0@inebraska.com...
> > 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
> >
> >


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