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From: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Seagate Reseller News: quotes without comment
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Date: 17 Aug 90 11:26:16 GMT
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Reply-To: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
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In article <32878@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>And why does Seagate spell "disk" as "disc"?  I thought only H-P and the French
>did that.


Way back when, in the early stages of development of computers, mass storage
had evolved to a magnetic drum. Then one day a _new_ idea was had.  Let's make
a flat drum that doesn't have that nasty problem of expanding as it spins
faster.  Ok, we'll make it in the shape of a discus (round flat thing, the
original frisbee). And because discus is too long of a word we'll shorten it
to disc.

It was only since the advent of personal computing that the disc became the
disk.  I only just converted over to the _new_ spelling recently.

I must be getting old. I remember core memory. And switching to the new high
speed 300 baud modems (from 110 baud). :-) 


Mike