Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : StormTrooper
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 24 2025 06:05 pm

  Re: Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
  By: StormTrooper to Nigel Reed on Thu Apr 24 2025 11:10 pm

 NR>> only play from it. That said, not sure where the term "drive" comes
 NR>> from because hard drives don't really go any where. Then again, where are
 NR>> 3 1/2" disks called floppies because they're not floppy at all. So

 St> I suspect... that hard drive is a throw back to them good old days when
 St> your HD was the size of a fridge and you had to install the platters in
 St> it.  In a real sense you inserted platters into the drive mechanism.
 St> Probably hung on after the platters became integrated and the devices much
 St> smaller..

I always thought it's called a "drive" because it's the device that "drives" the movement of the discs, similar to how a scrwdriver is the tool that "drives" the movement of a screw when you turn it.

Nightfox
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