Seagate Reseller News: quotes without comment

[Joe Smith]

In article <2219 at moscom.UUCP> mcc at moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett) writes:
>In article <32878 at cup.portal.com> thad at 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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