disk versus disc

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <1122206674.10241.42.camel at weka.localdomain>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Curiousity for the day - is there any difference between the use of disk
> and disc when describing floppy drives, hard drives etc.?

Near as I can tell...

  Disk = shortened form of "Diskette".
  Disc = Little round thing inside a floppy disk, covered in ferromagnetic
         "Magic Dust".
         Alternate: Round plastic thing used to store data, e.g. CD, DVD.

I spell it "disc" - most of the RISC OS users I know do too (probably down to
Acorn using that spelling in RISC OS and all the OS manuals - right down to
hard drives being initialised as "HardDisc<drivenum>" after formatting).

Start a war over it if you like, but I'll just sit and watch, thanks.

Later.
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