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• disk farm n. (also laundromat) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp.
  washing machines)....
• laundromat n. Syn. disk farm; see washing machine.
• usty memory: n. Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (esp.
  ape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in {washing machine}s)....
• walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• maximum Maytag mode: What a {washing machine} or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load.
  If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming {walking drives}....
• walking drives n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines.
  Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• hort card: n. A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives).
  See also {tall card}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• DK%WMM Disk Unit - Washing Machine Mode