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

From	"dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me>
Newsgroups	it.comp.retrocomputing, comp.os.cpm
Subject	Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ??
Date	2016-01-11 12:27 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 07/01/2016 23:54, CPMDude wrote:
> On 1/7/2016 1:26 PM, dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
>> On 06/01/2016 10:01, mr wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3018315/storage/star-trek-creators-lost-words-recovered-from-old-floppies.html
>>>
>>>
>>
> [...]
>> For the c.o.cpm fellows: your opinion on this news ? World wonders if
>> there's notes on the red/green/yellow books... ;) (people whose has seen
>> that Sarpeidon episode of TOS will understand...)
>>
>> Best regards from Italy,
>> dott. Piergiorgio.
>>
>
> 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!!!
> 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.

 From the article, seems that Roddenberry jr. don't trust US 
Mail/couriers and sent the diskettes in small batches.

and, let's be honest, who will dare to put hands on an "Holy Relic" of 
Star Trek ? too many hackers are also trekkers, and I strongly suspect 
that is unwise risking frying mistakes with these type of things.

if Roddenberry jr. was ripped-off, I'm sure that they should steer 
*very* clear from gen-con and other concentrations of trekkers..

Let's wait what will do Roddenberry jr. with these 2-3 Mb of ascii text. 
Whose is what matter for trekkers.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? scap61 <scap6161@yahoo.it> - 2016-01-05 01:12 -0800
  Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? mr <m.ridoni@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 01:01 -0800
    Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? francesco.messineo@gmail.com - 2016-01-06 10:55 -0800
      Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? scap61 <scap6161@yahoo.it> - 2016-01-06 12:04 -0800
      Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? mr <m.ridoni@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 06:43 -0800
        Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? francesco.messineo@gmail.com - 2016-01-07 08:12 -0800
          Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? mr <m.ridoni@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 08:18 -0800
        Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? francesco.messineo@gmail.com - 2016-01-07 08:12 -0800
          Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? test <test_is_invalid_mail@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 08:30 +0000
    Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2016-01-07 22:26 +0100
      Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? CPMDude <nospam@somewhere.net> - 2016-01-07 14:54 -0800
        Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? "Geoff Barnard" <geoff@jgb17.co.uk> - 2016-01-08 01:10 +0000
          Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? CPMDude <nospam@somewhere.net> - 2016-01-08 00:28 -0800
        Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2016-01-11 12:27 +0100
        Re: possibile che Gene Roddenberry usasse computer cosi' custom ?? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2016-01-11 21:50 +0100

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