8 Sep
2006
8 Sep
'06
10:15 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I think that ST was very notable for its time in that
the ship computers
didn't use mag tapes or disks--contrast with other contemporary Hollywood
fare.
Well, that may have been for budgetary reasons, not forward thinking.
:-) They also weren't consistent: some episodes show cartridges being
plugged into the console; others show thin memory-card-like wafers being
inserted (dropped completely into, actually, like falling through a slot
to the bottom).
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