“Compact disc” is spelled with a “C” because that’s how its inventors decided it should be rendered, but a computer hard disk is spelled with a “K” In modern technological contexts, “disks” usually reproduce data magnetically, while “discs” (CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc.) reproduce it “optically,” with lasers.

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