Subj : Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : Roon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 02:59 pm

 Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
 By: Roon to Nightfox on Mon Apr 28 2025 08:43 pm

N>> Also I've never heard the term "Winchester" for a storage device..?

> i'm still using winchester, when referring to a HDD in a hungarian
> conversation :)

Winchester drives are drives with sealed platters/heads. Made for a quantum reduction in size. Imagine if in the present day we had to create old-tech gigabyte drives with removeable disk packs, a gig the size of a washing machine?
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