It depends on if you use and endoscope to optically see the issue or use an MRI to magnetically see the issue.
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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Lee
Sent: 2013-04-24 10:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk?"
And what's herniated in my back...a disc or disk?
John Lee
At 10:18 AM 04/24/2013, Craig Lalley wrote:
>But what I really want to know is,
>
>Is it "fibre" or "fiber"? :-)
>
>-Craig
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Michael Anderson
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Apple is just regurgitating what others have
> also said in the past. People just make this stuff up as they go.
> Basically, a “DISK†refers to magnetic storage of data, and
> “DISC†refers to optical storage of data, and “DISC†also
> refers to magnetic and optical data storage on a HP3000, even TAPE has
> a DISC format, like file code 2501. Maybe there was some British
> influence within the original design of the HP3000.
> >
> > Here is a snippet from yahoo answers:
> > The divergence in spelling is due in part to
> the way in which the words originated. Disk came into the English
> language in the mid-17th century, and was modelled on words such as
> whisk; disc arose some time later, and was based on the original Latin
> root discus. In the 19th century, disc became the conventional
> spelling for audio recordings made on a flat plate, such as the
> gramophone record; this usage gave rise to the modern term disc
> jockey.
> 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).
> > By the 20th century, the c-spelling was more
> popular in British English, while the k-spelling was preferred in
> American English.
> In the 1940s, when the American company IBM pioneered the first hard
> disk storage devices, the k-spelling was used. In 1979 the European
> company Philips, along with Sony, developed the compact disc medium;
> here, the c-spelling was chosen, possibly because of the predominating
> British spelling, or because the compact disc was seen as a successor
> to the analogue disc record.
> > Whatever their heritage, in computer jargon
> today it is common for the k-spelling to refer mainly to magnetic
> storage devices, while the c-spelling is customary for optical media
> such as the compact disc and similar technologies.
> Even in the computing field, however, the terms are used
> inconsistently; software documentation often uses the k-spelling
> exclusively.
> >
> > --
> > Mike.
> >
> > On 04/24/2013 09:36 AM, Mark Ranft wrote:
> >> If you really think this is a big deal we do
> have the option to rate the Apple page. It is currently rated 4 stars
> with 5254 responses. Perhaps collectively we could lower the rating.
> I have already expressed my vote.
> >>
> >> I honestly do recall the 'disc' nomenclature
> being attributed to CD-type media. I always felt wrong with HP
> calling it DISC in the configuration.
> >>
> >> Mark Ranft
> >> Pro 3K
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nolan,Gary
> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:24 AM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] What's the
> difference between a "disc" and a "disk?"
> >>
> >> Been involved in IT since 1976. We used the
> terms Disc and Disk interchangeably as long as I have been around and
> that’s well before cd's and dvd's were around. I guess Apple now
> makes the rules?
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary Nolan, Dipl T,BTI
> >> Faculty, School of Applied Arts and New
> Media Nova Scotia Community College, Marconi Campus PO Box 1042
> >> 1240 Grand Lake Rd.
> >> Sydney, Nova Scotia
> >> B1P 6J7
> >>
> >> tel 902.563.6231| fax 902.563.0511
> >>
> >> Please consider the environment before printing this email ï
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Lalley
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:56 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: [HP3000-L] What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk?"
> >>
> >> Umm, I beg to differ.
> >>
> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2300
> >>
> >> -Craig
> >>
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