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Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ??

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On 07.01.2016 at 23:54 CPMDude wrote:
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>
> Wow - 3 *months* to reverse-engineer the CP/M disk format?  That doesn't
> say much for the technical competency of the DriveSavers crew.  They had
> the machine that created the disks right in front of them!!!

Exactly what I've thought about. If they can't read the letters of the 
type label/plate they just had to use Google image search to know what 
machine was used for writing the disks.

> So what if it didn't power up - forgetting the fact that restoring the
> machine to operation was probably no more difficult than replacing a few
> caps, all they had to do was pull the CP/M boot ROM, read it, and they
> would have had the disk format details right there in front of them in
> under an hour.  Still too hard?  Sit down in front of their Windoze
> laptop with a cup of coffee and surf around the many online computer
> museums until they find a matching picture of the machine in question. I
> guess that's the limit of today's 'technical' expertise.
>

These "professionals" had to search for a vintage PC, boot MS-DOS, use 
22disk, choose the right format, copy the files.
If the vintage PC didn't had already USB interfaces, they might use a 
parallel port ZIP drive for the vintage PC, and a more modern USB 
powered ZIP drive for a modern PC, to get the files finally back.
It was clearly a rip-off.

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