I just found this eBay listing with a lot of some old ISA cards, and saw this. This card appears to be a multi io controller, but instead of IDE, it has this 40 pin connector labeled “Winchester”. I have no idea what it is, any ideas?
It might be, in some parts of the world, HDDs are still called Winchester disks.
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Yes, definitely Hard Disk Controller, IDE.
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So... not a gun port. Disappointing.
Back in the time "winchester drive" was another name for hard disk drive.
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This was yes, and it is a real IDE. Compaq was coy with terms back in the day. This does same thing with L40SX. I had this choice or Compaq LTE 386s/20 and I knew Compaq used standard IDE and this won out. Later on I found out L40SX use one too. But I was happy with LTE 386s/20 for my college in 1993.
Oh, I do have the same card in storage and yes, it works. I had one once back in 1994, bought it off from someone in college and used it.
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A lot of MFM/RLL cards call it Winchester too
Since this is a (c) 1988 Compaq card, maybe it wasn't called IDE yet
elszgensa wrote on 2024-01-19, 21:49:So... not a gun port. Disappointing.
Right, it was named after a rifle.
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/winchester-disk
Introduced in 1973 as the [IBM] model 3340, the drive had one permanent and one removable spindle, each holding 30MB. The "30-30" storage capacities led to the Winchester nickname after the Winchester 30-30 rifle.
Is this too much voodoo?
