| The TOS sneakernet [message #71603] |
So, 03 Juli 2005 04:30 |
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If you really want to be reminded of how old TOS is, note that they call
floppies and other records "tapes". BTW, floppy disks hadn't really
been invented yet, so that was actually futuristic at the time, to think
that you could put a bunch of data on a cute lil old floppy-disk-looking
thing.
Anytime they want to share data, somebody passes somebody else a disk,
or some other data-bearing device. In Who Mourns For Adonais?, Spock
hands what looks like an Etch-A-Scetch to Mr. Kyle and asks him to take
the computations there to somebody else to look at.
They couldn't just save the data to the ship's main computer, and have
the guys access it from their station. No! Kyle had to hand-carry the
computations to the guys.
In the 1960's, TOS writers were astonishingly far-sighted in many ways,
but it's also interesting to notice what they couldn't foresee, I think.
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