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? ;-) -- Tony Li ;-) Usc Computer Science Uucp: {sdcrdcf,randvax}!uscvax!tli Csnet: tli@usc-cse.csnet Arpa: tli@usc-ecl
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 Dept. of Chemistry Dartmouth "Are you trying to be funny?" "It would never occur to me."
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 > Uucp: {sdcrdcf,randvax}!uscvax!tli > Csnet: tli@usc-cse.csnet > Arpa: tli@usc-ecl 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... --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you)