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Winchester disk

An early type of hard disk.

[After the Winchester, tradename for a .30-30 rifle, a rifle shooting a .30-caliber bullet with a powder grain size designation of 30 (from the disk's storage capacity of 30 MB and its access time of 30 milliseconds).]

Winchester disk

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a type of hard disk in which disks are permanently sealed, together with read-write heads, in an airtight container to keep dust out

[named after the 3030 Winchester rifle, as the original device would have had 3030 as its IBM number]

Translations

Winchester disk® [ˈwɪntʃɪstəˈdɪsk] N → disco m Winchester ®

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Winchester disk (redirected from Early IBM disk storage)

Winchester disk
(redirected from Early IBM disk storage)