International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) 3340 and 3350 disk drives oral history panel
IBM's 3340 disk drive and 3348 removable data module which first shipped in 1973 were developed with the project code name "Winchester." The 3340 was first to use “low mass heads, closed environment and lubricated disks”, a concept which came to be known as Winchester technology and was copied in all subsequent disk drive designs. Panel members devised the Winchester method over an extended development period, and also applied it to the next generation disk drive, the IBM 3350, which shipped in 1976 and was widely used in mainframe applications.
Item Details
- Date
- 2004-04-06 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102657933
- Other identifying number
- OHP 043 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- John M. (Jack) Harker (Interviewee)
Michael Warner (Interviewee)
James Porter (Moderator)
Kenneth E. Haughton (Interviewee)
Robert H. Friesen (Interviewee)
Chris P. Coolures (Interviewee)
David Cantrell (Videographer) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 34 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X2718.2004
- Subject
- Disk Drives, IBM, Winchester, Storage History
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection