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Winchester
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n. Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which
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the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. There is
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a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
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for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte volumes; 30--30
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became Winchester when somebody noticed the similarity to the common term
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for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30 referred to
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caliber and the second to the grain weight of the charge). (It is sometimes
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incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the laboratory in which the
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technology was developed.
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