1 May
2012
1 May
'12
9:42 a.m.
On 1 May 2012 at 9:23, Fred Cisin wrote:
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"?
We always called it RMS for "rotating mass storage" (to differentiate
it from tape). I suppose IBM called the same thing "DASD".
That name never stuck.
--Chuck