They still all look at me strangely when I refer to the thing in Pearl as a "winchester".

Now that made me smile, but it also reminded me of a story I was told while we were touring a company called Istel when I was at school, they showed us their computer room and advised us not to stand in front of the drives, as they had one fail a few weeks ago. Aparently the platters spun vertically rather than horizontally, and the spindle broke, the platter broke out of the case, through the wall (2 layers of brick) across the car park and ended up embedded in one of the managers cars. The plater was 15inch diameter and stored a whole 20MB.

I am not sure if the story was true or not, but noone went near their disks