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Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com)
Press2ToContinue writes: When Gene Roddenberry's computer died, it took with it the only method of accessing some 200 floppy disks of his unpublished work. To make matters worse, about 30 of the disks were damaged, with deep gouges in the magnetic surface. "Cobb said a few of the disks were formatted in DOS, but most of them were from an older operating system called CP/M. CP/M, or Control Program for Microcomputers, was a popular operating system of the 1970s and early 1980s that ultimately lost out to Microsoft's DOS. In the 1970s and 1980s it was the wild west of disk formats and track layouts, Cobb said. The DOS recoveries were easy once a drive was located, but the CP/M disks were far more work. " So what was actually on the disks? Lost episodes of Star Trek? The secret script for a new show? Or as Popular Science once speculated, a patent for a transporter?
Unfortunately, we still don't know. The Roddenberry estate hasn't commented yet, and the data recovery agency is bound by a confidentiality agreement.
Unfortunately, we still don't know. The Roddenberry estate hasn't commented yet, and the data recovery agency is bound by a confidentiality agreement.
They found kilobytes and kilobytes of nudie RTTY art. The only one they could have published was this one so they decided to just put the floppies back in the box and forget the whole thing.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
It said to never hire J J Abrams.
Select from tblFriends where interesting >= 4;
Unless she can manage to set lp0 on fire. Though this takes Elaine Roberts level hackery.
Indeed,
CP is center of pressure, and CM is center of mass, so CP/M is clearly the center of pressure divided by mass.
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Can anyone please explain how CP/M relates to "stuff that matters"? :-D