Definitely recall "disk farm" being used at Pan American Airways data center in the early 1970s, perhaps earlier to describe other large IBM/Memorex customers. The term appears in print in a 1983 Datamation and a 1989 Compaq product brochure
Tom -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:ccl...@sydex.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:09 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: "Farm" slang terms On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections > of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm" > (Altamont pass). I recall a room full of a hundred or more disk drives being referred to as a disk farm--but I don't think the usage was standard. --Chuck