Computer memory devices

Winchester

• A hard drive is often called a hard drive. There is a legend explaining why such a bizarre name was taken for hard drives.
• The first hard drive released in America in the early 70s had a capacity of 30 MB of information on each work surface. When developing it, engineers used the short internal name "30-30". At the same time, the OF Winchester magazine rifle "Winchester 30-30", widely known in the same America, had a caliber of 0.30; maybe the first hard drive rumbled during its work like a machine gun or it smelled of gunpowder - it's not clear, but since then they began to call hard drives hard drives.
• In Europe and the United States, the name "Winchester" fell out of use in the 1990s, while in Russian computer slang the name "Winchester" was preserved, shortening to the word "screw".