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• laundromat n. Syn. disk farm; see washing machine.
• 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}....
• disk farm: n. (also {laundromat}) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp.
  {washing machine}s). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive 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 machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• 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)....
• Mondays are the lint balls in the washing machine of life.
• NORMAL? That the setting I use on my washing machine...
• disk farm n. (also laundromat) A large room or rooms filled with disk drives (esp.
  washing machines)....