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Subject: Re: "winchester drives"
From: "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:27:40 -0500
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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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