Re: What cheer the Rightpondians?

Glenn Knickerbocker <NotR@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:46:07 -0800, Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
"[Hard] disks" is a most likely a recent back-formation. When that's
all there were, they were "discs". When little floppy ones came out,
they became "diskettes"

IBM has used "disk" since introducing the first disk drive in 1956.
The text of the RAMAC announcement is reproduced on their corporate
history web site:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/650/650_pr2.html

Okay, that's pretty definitive. Looking at the New York Times, I also
see ads that use "disk" back to 1960. I hereby abandon my theory.
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