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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In-Reply-To: <17289.937766500@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Sep 19, 1999 08:41:40 pm"
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> In message <199909191837.LAA55732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Grimes" writes
> :
> 
> >> Or as IBM did many years ago "rotating platter mass storage device" :-)
> >
> >I thought there international work for Disc was ``Direct Access Storage
> >Device'' abbreviated as ``DASD'', pronounced as in DazzDee :-).
> 
> I don't think that got used over here around '90 or so.  There were
> also various conflicing terminologies, mostly one per on product line
> (series/1 vs 3x vs 3[67]0 etc etc).

DASD was post 370 terminology, started about the time of the 3082/84
series so 1990 would be about right for when IBM started to use it.


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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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