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Dances with Wools Started conversation Feb 13, 2002
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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Frankie Roberto Posted Apr 30, 2002
Before that there were washing-machine sized hard drives with 100K.
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Diamond Bert Posted Sep 26, 2003
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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rotundity Posted Dec 9, 2004
You mean Winchester England or Winchester America? In England it's actually at Hursley, a small town some way away
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highamexpat Posted Nov 23, 2005
As far as i can recall they were called Winchester disks because they were developed at Winchester in the UK
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