[Gllug] re: winchester discs

[Tethys]

Chris Bell writes:

>   I was given an old 5 1/4 inch drive in an external case that I was told
>was known as a Winchester, I believe it may be as big as 30MB, and it is set
>up as storage for a BBC model B or Master. At the time it was built
>integrated circuits were very basic, and 30MB of fixed storage would have
>been physically huge.

Indeed. The Winchester I had for the Beeb was an absolutely *huge* (for the
time) 5MB. I wasn't aware of being able to get larger drives back then, and
30MB seems very unlikely.

Tet
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