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‘Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Data Recovered From 200 Floppy Disks
www.thewrap.com ^ | January 4, 2016 @ 1:51 pm | By Joe Otterson

Posted on 01/05/2016 9:31:16 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 01/05/2016 9:31:16 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Hmm...”Fire Shatner. And lose the guy with the funny ears.”


2 posted on 01/05/2016 9:33:36 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

Romulen recipes?


3 posted on 01/05/2016 9:33:38 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t order Sulu to “set course for Uranus”


4 posted on 01/05/2016 9:42:34 AM PST by Paddyboy (Roma Omnia Vincit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Its a cookbook!!


5 posted on 01/05/2016 9:44:31 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: Paddyboy

LOL! Good One!


6 posted on 01/05/2016 9:45:44 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Trump or Cruz in 2016. No others need apply.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Roddenberry had a number of ideas for the film versions (apparently few of which were acceptable to film makers).

Most of them dealt with ersatz missions like “finding God” (a variation of which was used in one of the less successful films).

The film makers wanted adventure stories (like The Wrath of Khan).

The other film makers generally prevailed.

The disks (which held much less storage than modern disks) ‘probably’ deal with his later film ideas, and not the series (and despite the high number of disks, there is probably not as much text there as their numbers would suggest, for the above noted reason)


7 posted on 01/05/2016 9:47:13 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Red Badger

“Rosebud”


8 posted on 01/05/2016 9:48:36 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: CondorFlight

Is it me, or does the author seem unaware there WAS no such thing as a floppy disc when the original series was on?

I agree - whatever is on there, it probably has to do with the later films, which elevates this “news story” (at least for me) into the realm of “so what?”.


9 posted on 01/05/2016 9:51:58 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Red Badger
and special word processing software that prevented any modern method of reading what was on the disks.

The Bank Street Writer perhaps?

10 posted on 01/05/2016 9:52:04 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Red Badger

Reminds me of my first Kaypro 2 computer.


11 posted on 01/05/2016 9:52:21 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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Im calling BS... custom computer, custom OS...i dont think so... maybe obscure or arcane......also 5.25 inch floppys first came out in 1976....before that you had 8 inch floppys

I started as a tech in 1980 as worked on stuff that would be “old” even back then...


12 posted on 01/05/2016 9:55:32 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Never heard of it. Was it like ‘Lisa’?.............


13 posted on 01/05/2016 9:55:44 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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We had at work back then, 79-80, PDP-11’s that used 8 inch floppies!..................


14 posted on 01/05/2016 9:57:35 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

Did Geraldo find them locked in a vault?


15 posted on 01/05/2016 9:59:34 AM PST by YourAdHere (Hillary will win. I don't like it. I've just accepted it.)
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To: Red Badger

Obama was born on Romulus?


16 posted on 01/05/2016 10:02:36 AM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: tophat9000
Funny I just looked up something

The first Apple 1 came out in 1976 for $666

So an Apple ( what Satan tempted Eve in the garden)...for 666?( the number of the beast)....

Gee did we miss it...Steve Jobs was the Antichrist?...it explains the cult of Mac ;)

17 posted on 01/05/2016 10:06:51 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Red Badger
Was it like 'Lisa'?...

Not hardware...software. Circa...1980s.

Bank Street Writer

18 posted on 01/05/2016 10:08:52 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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Was it a DIY S-100 bus computer?

A store in Los Angeles (on Rosecrans IIRC) sold bare boards and kits of integrated circuits so you could make your own computers.

It was popular with the aerospace workers/engineers that worked in the area.


19 posted on 01/05/2016 10:10:17 AM PST by az_gila
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To: Red Badger

HP-21MX Series had 9895A 8” dual-floppies as a storage option. I would have to replace the felt pads that pressed the floppy against the read/write heads.


20 posted on 01/05/2016 10:11:09 AM PST by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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