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by OJFord 1860 days ago
> 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).

I love that.

In my own usage I've always made the magnetic distinction without really knowing why. At least now I can identify the boundary as 'magnetism'..!