8 Sep
2006
8 Sep
'06
10:31 a.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Jim Leonard
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Sounds a little like the storage used on the planet Krypton and in
Superman's Fortress of Solitude.. It is lengths of crystal which is
probably holographic and now that kind of storage is being worked on.
Cheers,
Bryan
P.S. I just watched Superman: The Movie a few days ago.. :)
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).