3  definitions  found 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Winchester,  AR  (city,  FIPS  76010) 
  Location:  33.77479  N,  91.47501  W 
  Population  (1990):  239  (87  housing  units) 
  Area:  1.3  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  71677 
  Winchester,  CA  (CDP,  FIPS  85894) 
  Location:  33.70890  N,  117.08065  W 
  Population  (1990):  1689  (608  housing  units) 
  Area:  12.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  92596 
  Winchester,  ID  (city,  FIPS  87850) 
  Location:  46.24105  N,  116.62242  W 
  Population  (1990):  262  (142  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.4  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  83555 
  Winchester,  IL  (city,  FIPS  82270) 
  Location:  39.62942  N,  90.45656  W 
  Population  (1990):  1769  (775  housing  units) 
  Area:  2.8  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  IN  (city,  FIPS  84752) 
  Location:  40.17191  N,  84.97711  W 
  Population  (1990):  5095  (2286  housing  units) 
  Area:  6.1  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  47394 
  Winchester,  KS  (city,  FIPS  79800) 
  Location:  39.32166  N,  95.26789  W 
  Population  (1990):  613  (211  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.6  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  66097 
  Winchester,  KY  (city,  FIPS  83676) 
  Location:  37.99729  N,  84.18828  W 
  Population  (1990):  15799  (6592  housing  units) 
  Area:  14.6  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  40391 
  Winchester,  MA  (CDP,  FIPS  80545) 
  Location:  42.45185  N,  71.14692  W 
  Population  (1990):  20267  (7559  housing  units) 
  Area:  15.6  sq  km  (land),  0.7  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  01890 
  Winchester,  MO  (city,  FIPS  80314) 
  Location:  38.58995  N,  90.52563  W 
  Population  (1990):  1678  (608  housing  units) 
  Area:  0.6  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  NH  (CDP,  FIPS  85460) 
  Location:  42.77620  N,  72.38467  W 
  Population  (1990):  1735  (691  housing  units) 
  Area:  7.7  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  NV  (CDP,  FIPS  84600) 
  Location:  36.13660  N,  115.12979  W 
  Population  (1990):  23365  (12485  housing  units) 
  Area:  11.4  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  OH  (village,  FIPS  85876) 
  Location:  38.94264  N,  83.65355  W 
  Population  (1990):  978  (436  housing  units) 
  Area:  6.8  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  45697 
  Winchester,  OK  (town,  FIPS  81575) 
  Location:  35.78599  N,  95.99200  W 
  Population  (1990):  301  (126  housing  units) 
  Area:  11.8  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  TN  (city,  FIPS  81080) 
  Location:  35.18840  N,  86.10852  W 
  Population  (1990):  6305  (2625  housing  units) 
  Area:  19.5  sq  km  (land),  1.8  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  37398 
  Winchester,  VA  (city,  FIPS  840) 
  Location:  39.17448  N,  78.17500  W 
  Population  (1990):  21947  (9808  housing  units) 
  Area:  24.2  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Winchester,  VA  (city,  FIPS  86720) 
  Location:  39.17448  N,  78.17500  W 
  Population  (1990):  21947  (9808  housing  units) 
  Area:  24.2  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  22601 
  Winchester,  WI 
  Zip  code(s):  54557 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  Winchester  n.  Informal  generic  term  for  sealed-enclosure 
  magnetic-disk  drives  in  which  the  read-write  head  planes  over  the  disk 
  surface  on  an  air  cushion.  There  is  a  legend  that  the  name  arose  because 
  the  original  1973  engineering  prototype  for  what  later  became  the  IBM  3340 
  featured  two  30-megabyte  volumes;  30-30  became  `Winchester'  when  somebody 
  noticed  the  similarity  to  the  common  term  for  a  famous  Winchester  rifle 
  (in  the  latter,  the  first  30  referred  to  caliber  and  the  second  to  the 
  grain  weight  of  the  charge).  (It  is  sometimes  incorrectly  claimed  that 
  Winchester  was  the  laboratory  in  which  the  technology  was  developed.) 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  winchester 
 
    An  informal  generic  term  for  {floating-head} 
  {magnetic  disk}  drives  in  which  the  read-write  head  planes 
  over  the  disk  surface  on  an  air  cushion. 
 
  The  name  arose  because  the  original  1973  engineering  prototype 
  for  what  later  became  the  {IBM  3340}  featured  two  30-megabyte 
  volumes;  30--30  became  Winchester"  when  somebody  noticed  the 
  similarity  to  the  common  term  for  a  famous  Winchester  rifle 
  (in  the  latter,  the  first  30  referred  to  caliber  and  the 
  second  to  the  grain  weight  of  the  charge). 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1994-12-06) 
 
 

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