Dan Piponi13h ago

Now I have a little bit of time on my hands (surprisingly little actually) I was doing a bit of retro programming.

And here's something I forgot: anyone remember when hard drives were called Winchester drives?

Now we have the Internet I can look these terms up and see how those names came about...

Show threadMartin Escardo

@dpiponi asks " anyone remember when hard drives were called Winchester drives?"

I do! In 1985 in my first job in industry (while I was a university student at the same time).

It had 10MB, which was wow at that time.

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Show threadStrider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽12h ago
@MartinEscardo @dpiponi And they were the size of a washing machine! Yep, I think the first one I saw was around the same time, maybe a year or two earlier, and it could hold 5 MB. Damn, that was a lot of storage space!