25 Jan
2013
25 Jan
'13
12:27 p.m.
On 01/25/2013 11:57 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
So is it definitely the case that the common European spelling for
what us Yanks would call a "disk" is "disc"? So a CD-ROM is more
properly called a "disc"? I just want to be clear on that. That's
something to be delightfully pedantic about. :)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> Why is a
floppy "disk", but a CD-ROM "disc"?
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, geneb wrote:
Well don't hold out! Tell us! :)
I agree completely with Liam.
Shugart and IBM were American companies who developed floppy "disk"s
But, CD-ROM "disc" came from audio Compact Disc, which was a European
development. (Dutch, not German)