Date   : Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:13:47 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Fire up the Quattro!

On 04/04/2010, Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> wrote:
> such as the episode of the X-Files which
> involved something stored on a backup tape. Bizarrely, every single
> computer that Agent Mulder used had the correct type of tape drive and
> software to read the tape.

Also, something I notice a lot in a certain sub-genre of Sci-Fi -
stuff lasts forever!  As anybody whom has had anything to do with even
30 year old tapes & drives knows, the stuff most certainly doesn't.

(anybody ever see "The starlost" ?  Multiple generations later, they
are still usng the same cassettes ...)


Heck, I once had to do some work in the cable runs in a factory that
had been empty for a only a few years - somebody had left the lights
on up there, and now virtually all of them were out, or at least
flickering..


> Anyone noticed how low-end HP Deskjet printers in films and TV shows
> seem to spit colour pages out at the speed of the fastest laser
> printers?

And everything spits pages out face-up, even when they don't normally!

Rob