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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Winchester</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="win-win.html" title="win win"/><link rel="next" href="windoid.html" title="windoid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Winchester</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="win-win.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="windoid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Winchester"/><dt xmlns="" id="Winchester"><b>Winchester</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in
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which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion.
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There is a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering
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prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
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volumes; 30--30 became ‘Winchester’ when somebody noticed the
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similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter,
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the first 30 referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the
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charge). (It is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the
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laboratory in which the technology was developed.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="win-win.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="windoid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">win win </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> windoid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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