[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:50, Richard Jones wrote:
> According to the web, and this I did not know before, "Winchester" was
> the name of an early hard drive technology developed by IBM.

At (IIRC) their Winchester research labs - hence the name.

Also, although my memory is definitely slightly hazy in this area, I
seem to remember it's a particular kind of HDD.  A Winchester is a
semi-sealed unit, unlike the removable washing-machine type of HDD.

John

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