Title:
Oral History Panel on IBM 3340 and 3350 Disk Drives

Date:
2004-04-06

Pages:
34 p.

Interviewer:
Porter, Jim; interviewer
Harker, John; interviewee
Haughton, Kenneth; interviewee
Coolures, Chris; interviewee
Friesen, Robert; interviewee
Warner, Michael; interviewee
Cantrell, David; cameraperson

Abstract:
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.

Keywords:
IBM
IBM 3340 disk drive
IBM 3348 data module
IBM 3350 disk drive
Disk Drives
Winchester
Madrid
Warner, Michael
Friesen, Robert
Coolures, Chris
Haughton, Kenneth
Harker, John

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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