1 May
2012
1 May
'12
9:23 a.m.
>>> fixed bath or shower'.
>> Is a "fixed" bath or shower one that has been repaired?
>> Or, as with a "fixed disk", using the veterinary meaning?
On
Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Kirn Gill wrote:
Fixed in the sense of fixed disk. As in, stuck in
it's place by design.
As opposed to a non-fixed disk, that can be removed from the drive
assembly (usually in the form of a cartridge, like a floppy disk or an
SD card.)
I was referencing something that I posted long ago.
Why did IBM not call it a "HARD disk" as the rest of the industry
had been doing?
"Pel" V "pixel"?
"System board" V "motherboard"?
In a completely unofficial capacity (at a party at Comdex), an inebriated
IBM booth staffer explained that "pixel" sounded too cutesy;
"motherboard"
had undesirable partial associations with black militants; and "hard disk"
sounded like it would be hard to use. Somebody else said, "Well, I'm a
veterinarian. Are you sure that you want it associated with OUR use of
the term?"
Since then, that has always come to mind whenever I hear the term.