Disc is incorrect unless we're talking about a flying disc, in which case
it's slang for discus. (Although in eight years of competing in track and
field in high school and college, I never heard anyone say "my event is the
disc".)
In the "for what it's worth here" department, according the AP stylebook,
disk refers to any thin plate where computer data is stored, while diskette
refers to a floppy-style disk (compared to, for example, a hard disk)...
compact disc is an exception because in that case, disc is a proper noun
refering to the trademarked term.
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Subject: Re: disk versus disc
doesn't seem to be a regional thing.
In the docs I've been looking at, HP uses 'disc' while DEC uses
'disk'.
Haven't looked at any 'DEC' docs from the Compaq or HP era to see if it
changes one way or the other.