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the original answer to where do I put this, and how do I lose it forever
means A flat, round, thin object — or, in computing, a circular medium for storing data magnetically or optically.
from From Latin 'discus,' meaning a quoit or flat plate thrown in athletic contests, itself borrowed from Greek 'diskos' (from 'dikein,' to throw). English took it in via the 17th century, and the same root branched off into 'dish' (a flattened plate of food), 'desk,' and 'dais' — all relatives of that thrown circle. The spelling split 'disk' and 'disc' along the way, with computing largely keeping 'disk' for hard drives and 'disc' for optical media, a tidy convention nobody fully agrees on.
- floppy origins
- Earliest floppies were eight inches wide and bendy
- spinning fast
- Hard drive platters can hit 15000 RPM
- save icon
- Billions tap a floppy they've never touched
- laser read
- CDs and DVDs are read by light, not contact
- tiny gap
- Drive heads float nanometers above the surface
voyager golden record — golden disk launched with voyager 1 in 1977, carrying sounds and images from earth into space
compact disc — digital optical disk format introduced by philips and sony in 1982, standard for music distribution until streaming
winchester disk drive — ibm's 5.25-inch hard disk drive released in 1973, revolutionized computer storage with sealed cartridge design