Manchester

n 1: largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New

Hampshire on the Merrimack river [syn: {Manchester}]

2: a city in northwestern England (30 miles east of Liverpool);

heart of the most densely populated area of England [syn:

{Manchester}]

winchester

An informal generic term for {floating-head}

{magnetic disk} drives in which the read-write head planes

over the disk surface on an air cushion.

The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype

for what later became the {IBM 3340} featured two 30-megabyte

volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the

similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle

(in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the

second to the grain weight of the charge).

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-06)