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>> For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can't text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.

Tsk. Please. We've all seen CD disks before, you know.



Fun fact, the D stood for disks, so you're literally saying "Compact Disks Disks".


I'm fine with that. Like "SAM Missiles" (in the sky) or "CMS System" etc.

Also, it's "pedant", not "pendant" :P


The D stood for Disc.

Consensus at the time was a disk with a K was writable, a disc with a C was read-only.


Or disc for optical, disk for magnetic




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