On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:50 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Tue, August 19, 2008 11:43, Scott Silva wrote: > > > (I just dated myself with the DASD comment) Quit that! Get a girl friend or something! ;-) > > And branded. > > I don't recall that anybody referred to "DASD" connected to our IBM 1401; > it was just "disk". Were we just a weird corner (I wouldn't swear they > didn't use some weird term like DASD in the manuals, just that none of the > people I worked with used it)? Or was that a later term, say from the 360 > generation? > > (When I worked on the 1401, we were in fact well into the 360 generation > chronologically, just not at the place I was working; that was in 1969, > and we moved from the 1401 to a DEC PDP-11/20 just a couple of years after > that.) Ditto here. But our 1401 stuff was being emulated on S360/30. During that time, DASD became the lazy acronym used extensively to cover any of the then-extant direct-access devices (drums, cylinders, "disks" - euphemistically mounted in "pizza ovens (2314/19 IIRC). -- Bill