> Interesting. A Winchester is also the name of the first hard drives made by
> IBM; the name was constituted from the 30-30 rifle (IBM's designation for
> the hard drive was Model 3030), which wasn't only a "frontier" type, but
> used during WWI. The rifle was designed and mfd at the Winchester arsenal,
> hence its name. Of these our language is enriched. Off topic, but
> interesting, what?
>
But not entirely correct. The first IBM harddrive was made in the late
50's and was called RAMAC. The xx30 disk drive was the 3330. It was
called Winchester because it was designed at the IBM Hursley laboratory,
which is close to Winchester, England.
Al Duke
> Sil Horwitz, FPSA
> Technical Editor, PSA Journal
> silh@iag.net