(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-02-20:2. The previous
cartoon was 75-10-04.)
2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for {washing software}. CMU has
clusters of these.
1. 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'. The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is
even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. The
thick channel cables connecting these were called bit hoses (see
{hose}, sense 3).
(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 76-02-20:2. The previous
cartoon was 75-10-04.)
2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for {washing software}. CMU has
clusters of these.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {disk farm}{hose}{maximum Maytag mode}{walking drives}]