...out before hard-shell 3.5" floppydisks were invented. If you are... and crew people referring to records as "tapes" now and then.... new technology then. Cassette style tapes had not yet been invented,... the basic tech for cassette tapes existed (afterall at its most ... merely a reel to reel tape system in miniature) but at ... format similar to the dictaphone tapes that became common in the ...
... ways, but the original statement was about technological devices. Her statement was in response to someone talking about floppydisks and the like. It's absurd to think that inventions of need (portable phones, disks, etc) came about through inspiration of Trek. Those things would have been invented ...
... in many ways, but the original statement was about technological devices. Her statement was in response to someone talking about floppydisks and the like. It's absurd to think that inventions of need (portable phones, disks, etc) came about through inspiration of Trek. Those things would have been invented ...
... the original statement was about technological devices. Her statement was in response to someone talking about floppydisks and the like. It's absurd to think that inventions of need (portable phones, disks, etc) came about through inspiration of Trek. Those things would have... the Gun) 1,079,252,848.8 km/h, not just a good idea, it's the law. "So say we ...
... have these tech advances without TOS. That's just absurd. The technology would most likely have been ... packaging is often inspired by popular fiction. The designers of the 3.5" floppydisk have specifically cited TOS' little squares of data storage as their inspiration for ... get carried away here. The Trek communicator is just a walkie-talkie derivative- a technology used well ...
... You're suggesting we wouldn't have these tech advances without TOS. That's just absurd. The technology would most likely have been developed anyway. But packaging is often inspired by popular fiction. The designers of the 3.5" floppydisk have specifically cited TOS' little squares of data storage as their inspiration for the case. Prior to TOS the...
..." <philnblanc@comcast.net> wrote... The square "disks" of the TOS sneakernet don't actually .... I don't think they envisioned disks at that time. In TOS, they ... of the developers of the 3.5" floppydisk (also sometimes called "microfloppies" said ...thing TOS got wrong was missing the disk drive as an intermediate step between tape and nonvolatile solid-state storage. Agreed....
...was out before hard-shell 3.5" floppydisks were invented. If you are alert, you can catch the captain and crew people referring to records as "tapes" now and then. :)... a new technology then. Cassette style tapes had not yet been invented, if... item for hip teens. The square "disks" of the TOS sneakernet don't ... I don't think they envisioned disks at that time. In TOS, they...
...: , and the portable battery-powered transistor radio was the hot must-have item for hip teens. I remember transistor radios in 1960. By Trek in 1966 we were just starting to get really progressive FM on our smaller radios. I remember going to the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and seeing the industrial exhibits of the latest state-of-the-art ...
... is that there was probably some very mundane reason for it, such as the red costume shirts not staining as readily as the gold or blue, so that people wearing them and falling on the ground wouldn't ruin them easily. <dryly> That also might explain why Kirk's keep getting ripped off. The stains would never come out of that gold, so just rip it off and throw it away </dryly>
