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washing machine
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n. 1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called
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because of the size of the cabinet and the top-loading access to the media
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packs and, of course, they were always set on spin cycle. The
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washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in
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Russian hacker jargon. See also walking drives. The thick channel cables
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connecting these were called bit hoses (see hose , sense 3). (The next
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cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-02-20:2. The previous cartoon was
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75-10-04. ) 2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for washing software. CMU
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has clusters of these.
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