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Winchester disk

 
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–noun Computers.
a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
Also called Winchester.

Origin:
1970–75; orig. an IBM code name; the designation for a device containing two such disks was 3030 (each disk containing 30 megabytes), the same as the model number of a well-known Winchester rifle
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Winchester disk  
n.  An early type of hard disk.

[After the Winchester, tradename for a .30-30 rifle, a rifle shooting a .30-caliber bullet with a powder grain size designation of 30 (from the disk's storage capacity of 30 MB and its access time of 30 milliseconds).]
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