A Conversation for Hard Drives

50 Meg? Luxury

Post 1

Dances with Wools

The first computer I used at work had a 10Meg hard disk. Today you couldn't even fit a single Windows application into that.

I remember it was still common then for people to call them "Winchesters" or "Winnies", this being the common name for the big hard disk units that attached to mainframe computers.


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Post 2

Frankie Roberto

Before that there were washing-machine sized hard drives with 100K.


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Post 3

Diamond Bert

I've often wondered why they were called Winchesters. I've come up with two possibilities - 1) at school in Chemistry, the large chemical storage bottles were called Winchesters; 2) IBM had/have(?) a research lab at Winchester. Can anybody shed any light on this?


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Post 4

rotundity

You mean Winchester England or Winchester America? In England it's actually at Hursley, a small town some way away


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Post 5

highamexpat

As far as i can recall they were called Winchester disks because they were developed at Winchester in the UK


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