Is a VHS tape a disk then?
Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Its a disk when its magnetic, disc when optical.
The way to remember it is that its disk because its magnetik.
bestagon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, that’s a tape. It has to be dis(c/k) shaped to be a disk.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)
piccolo@ani.social 3 months ago
Linear disk 🤓
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
thi(k/cc)
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
more disk shaped than flash memory.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is a plate optical or magnetic?
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Depends on how you store data on it. If you write with a pen its optical.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I usually store food on them
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So… neither?
piccolo@ani.social 3 months ago
Where do magento-optical fit?
StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My god I have not laughed that hard in a long time
MadBob@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Including fridge magnets?
ArdMacha@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No a disc is round
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ur a disc
shasta@lemm.ee 3 months ago
But what if it’s magnetic?
piccolo@ani.social 3 months ago
What about solid state?
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 months ago
What if it’s optikal?
Leg@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I cannot stress enough how efficiently you ruined my ability to use the memory trick.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 3 months ago
Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.
Leg@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Now you’ve gone and made things worse.