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Re:Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an os... by robin_reala on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:11PM (#27188504)
It’s a en-GB vs en-US thing, that warrants its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
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Re:Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an os... by OJFord on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:32PM (#27189218)
> Early BBC technicians differentiated between disks (in-house transcription records) and discs (the colloquial term for commercial gramophone records, or what the BBC dubbed CGRs).

I love that.

In my own usage I've always made the magnetic distinction without really knowing why. At least now I can identify the boundary as 'magnetism'..!

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