8 Sep
2016
8 Sep
'16
11:01 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 01:03:36PM -0400, Murray McCullough wrote:
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small
computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
a television show of 50 years ago?
I remember reading, ages ago, that the ubiquitous 'memory tapes' they
were always shoving into techno things on TOS were about the size of a
3.5" disk. And, after they started to become common, I remember thinking
that USB 'thumb drives' were about the form-factor of the chips used in
TNG.
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