alt Hacker NewsPlus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk."
My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.
Plus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk."
My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.
More modern hard disks included the drive mechanism in one unit.
They used to be separate, so you would mount the hard disk on the drive to make it accessible.