Re: Revival & Gelobrom & Winchester
Sil Horwitz (silh@iag.net)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:26:49 -0400
At 04:35 AM 960914 +1000, Al Duke wrote: (in part)
>Sil Horwitz wrote:
>> 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
>
>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.
Which just goes to show you how little I know about IBM! I guess I should
stick to photography. Thanks for the correction.
Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
silh@iag.net