| Winchester technology [`win·ches·tǝr tek`näl·ǝ·jē] COMPUTER SCIENCE Innovations designed to achieve disks with up to 6 × 108 bytes per disk drive; the technology includes nonremovable or sealed disk packs, a read/write head that weighs only 0.25 gram and floats above the surface, magnetic orientation of iron oxide particles on the disk surface, and lubrication of the disk surface. |