Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!eedsp!owen From: owen@eedsp.gatech.edu (Owen Adair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Eject floptical; Insert FLOPTY Message-ID: <379@eedsp.gatech.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:08:16 GMT References: <376@eedsp.gatech.edu>Reply-To: owen@eedsp.UUCP (Owen Adair) Distribution: comp.sys.next Organization: DSP Lab, School of Electrical Engineering, Ga. Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332 Lines: 22 In article drb@F.CS.CMU.EDU (Dean Benjamin) writes: >I prefer the 2-syllable "flopty" to the 3-syllable "floptical", as used by >flur@eedsp.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) in article <376@eedsp.gatech.edu>: >"just above the right hand corner of the flopty." > ------ >Did Peter coin this term, or has it appeared elsewhere? In the DSP Lab here at Tech, we use the term od (ohh-dee) short for optical disk. Dunno why everyone is trying to get real cute with it. Any term with "floppy" in it is a misnomer. :-) -owen -- Owen Adair, WD4FSU Digital Signal Processing Lab, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: owen%gteedsp@gatech.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gt-eedsp!owen