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...

@dpiponi we had them in a little room at school next to thhe tuck shop - very mysterious - only the sixth-formers were allowed in to play with the 8" floppies