[net.startrek] Views of the future

batie@omovax.UUCP (Alan Batie) (01/18/85)

For what it's worth:

Has anybody noticed how closely the current 3 1/2" disks resemble the 'tape'
cartridges so often used in the series?

	Alan Batie	...!decvax!microsoft!omovax!argent!batie

tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li) (01/21/85)

> Has anybody noticed how closely the current 3 1/2" disks resemble the 'tape'
> cartridges so often used in the series?
> 	Alan Batie	...!decvax!microsoft!omovax!argent!batie

Have you noticed the even closer resemblance to cassette tapes?  ;-)


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raiche@dartvax.UUCP (George A. Raiche) (01/23/85)

> For what it's worth:
> 
> Has anybody noticed how closely the current 3 1/2" disks resemble the 'tape'
> cartridges so often used in the series?
> 
> 	Alan Batie	...!decvax!microsoft!omovax!argent!batie

		*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MASSAGE ***

I just stuck one of those things into my Macintosh.  Now if I could only
get it to say  "ComPUting, dear"...

				George Raiche
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				Dartmouth


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jin@hplabs.UUCP (Tai Jin) (01/23/85)

> > Has anybody noticed how closely the current 3 1/2" disks resemble the 'tape'
> > cartridges so often used in the series?
> > 	Alan Batie	...!decvax!microsoft!omovax!argent!batie
> 
> Have you noticed the even closer resemblance to cassette tapes?  ;-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Li ;-)		Usc Computer Science
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actually, they bear a close resemblance to dectapes.  and you thought
they were a thing of the past!

bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (01/26/85)

> Article <9@omovax.UUCP>, from batie@omovax.UUCP (Alan Batie)
+----------------
| For what it's worth:
| 
| Has anybody noticed how closely the current 3 1/2" disks resemble the 'tape'
| cartridges so often used in the series?

Obviously, sometime early on in the ST universe, Exatron Corp. outstripped
Shugart...

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