[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:37:56PM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In clearing out my loft I've stumbled across (literally) a Dell 333D. 
> This beastie is a 386 with a 760MB Winchester "Disk Memory Unit". It is 
> connected to a 16bit ISA card claiming to be an Ultrastor M 94V-0.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that I could install an run on the 386? The 
> m/board has one IDE connector to that aspect shouldn't be a problem, 
> but what exactly is a Winchester, and might it be usable (for museum 
> purposes, mostlikely, and I know it'll be slow and clunky if it goes at 
> all!)

"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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