It should be noted that the above is a fairly parochial practice. Disk is the more common usage in the USA. Disc was more common in the UK, Australia, and perhaps elsewhere but is slowly falling to US usage. The above disk for magnetic, disc for optical is probably used somewhere, but i've never seen it before.
It is extremely rare and probably wrong for anyone to refer to a magnetic tape as a disk.
Disk is the more common usage in the USA
Is it? Aren't you forgetting that all CD jewel boxes (whether they be music, data or games) have the following written in them twice over - "compact disc digital audio".
And I always presumed 'disc' to be an Americanism and 'disk' - or 'diskette' to be more precise.
Why this move? It seems to me that the text on
/Talk is more relevant on the real page than the text there which seems pretty bogus to me. --
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