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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I don't get it. The little plastic data slabs in Star Trek TOS were called "tapes". Apparently the term didn't have the staying power Roddenberry expected. I wonder how much longer we'll keep calling our little pocket supercomputers "phones".

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that's a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.

Every once in a while I think about downloading a LCARS theme

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

By TNG, which started airing in 1987, data was mostly kept in (isolinear) chips and the computer, which still feels natural.