disk versus disc

[Stan Sieler]

Re:
> > 
> > At 08:04 AM 7/24/2005, you wrote:
> > >Curiosity for the day - is there any difference between the use of disk
> > >and disc when describing floppy drives, hard drives etc.?

IIRC, the major IEEE magazines adopted a standard
of "disk" for magnetic media, "disc" for optical media
...IIRC, about 5 years ago I asked one of their senior
editors about magneto-optical :)   
He said "disc", because for them the optical overrides 
the magnetic part.

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