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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Seagate Reseller News: quotes without comment
Summary: DSK came long before PC
Message-ID: <1197@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 90 10:12:14 GMT
References: <32878@cup.portal.com> <2219@moscom.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <2219@moscom.UUCP> mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett) writes:
>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.
>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.

It was spelled disk long before personal computing.  Back in the late 60's
DEC was using disk; the devices were referred to a DSKA:, DSKB:, etc.
I think the 3-letter abbreviation DSC was already in use by another device.
(But then, disks on a PDP-10 were connected to a Kontroller.  Go figure.)

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