Davis Rorgh wrote:
ISTR that a hard drive was loosely called a DISK (spelled with a K).

A CD-R was called a DISC - spelled with a C but more and more often
misspelled with a K.

Is a DVD called a DISC or a DISK?

The convention has been that magnetic media are called "disks"; other
media are on "discs". One reason it almost makes sense is that a hard
drive consists of many discs (platters). That does not apply to
floppies, of course, and major manufacturers have spelled the word
differently depending on the ad departments. As for EEPROMs and such,
they are memory but not on discs, so any use of either term is the
manufacturer's choic (and usually trademark).

Of course, the bottom line is that that's one misspelling which does not
lead to misunderstanding.

Mike
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