[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Wed Mar 24 19:32:13 UTC 2004


Yep at IBM Hursley labs in Winchester UK. They have/had a museum there with
some of the original drives. Google produced this interesting link
http://www.dataemergency.co.uk/hd_history.htm 

Ken


>"Winchester" is what we used to call hard drives back in the old days
(20+ years).

>According to the web, and this I did not know before, "Winchester" was
the name of an early hard drive technology developed by IBM.

>Rich.




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