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Fal: Absolutely true in every respect. Yet the pre- might maintain, with some justification, that "drive" should never have come to mean a serial semiconductor memory often hanging from a keychain; suggesting instead that the coinage of a new word might have been better

Of course as a newly fledged de- I wouldn't; now I merely bend over and slide down my britches



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Yet the pre- might maintain, with some justification, that "drive" should never have come to mean a serial semiconductor memory often hanging from a keychain; suggesting instead that the coinage of a new word might have been better



I don't know why not. Isn't a drive a place where data is stored, whether hard, floppy, virtual, portable, solid-state, or whatever other adjective might be thrown at it?

While the technical definition of a drive is a device that spins disks or tapes in order to read and write data; for example, a hard drive, floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, or tape drive, in reality we do not use the word that way. "Write it to the floppy drive." "Store it on the hard drive." We LONG ago (post-modernally speaking) stopped thinking of a drive as a motor that turns a disk or moves a tape.

TEd