Mastodawn

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 I remember that but then my father worked in the hard drive industry so my experience may be skewed. Also, I'm pretty sure "Winchester" was an IBM brand name rather than a generic word for a hard drive.

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Dan Piponi

@11011110 It started as a specific product but it caught on a generic term. TBH the Winchester drives I knew as a kid may or may not have been made by IBM but we were probably less aware of brands back then.