I'm just wondering how Dale got the disk to send to Angela in the first place? If it was some top secret program the Praetorians were going to use, how did some software company guy get a hold of it?
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we are stone, immaculate.
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Dale sent a disk copy of the Mozarts Ghost program that Cathedral must have been testing/debugging, when he found the Pi symbol and where it could lead to he made a disk copy of the program for Angela to test and give her opinion.
heal the past...live the present... dream the future...
Speaking pf disks... what kind of disks were they using??? They look freakin' weird!
shareIt looks like they were using standard 1.44 MB disks...
heal the past...live for the present... dream the future...
1.44 MB????
Why would anyone use something so small??????
LOL! Wow.. This shows how fast technology is moving... Nowadays a 1 gig usb/flash drive is small... Well, back then, that just was the standard... 1.44 or 720 kb.. Not mentioning the 5 3/4" floppys LOL!!
1,44 was more than enough considering the HD's were barely more than a few hundred MBs....
I'm just thinking back to 1998. The first PC I had... utilized a 4 GB hard drive. I now have a USB flash drive that's 4 GB.
The day that nanotechnology starts creeping into consumer products all bets are off. hahaha
The first PC I owned had a 20MB hard drive. We never seemed to fill it up. When the first computer died and we bought our second one it had a 40MB hard drive and we thought we were living large. Couldn't imagine having enough software to load onto it that we'd need that much memory.
Now as I type this I'm on a computer with 70GB that stays near maxed out so we bought a 500GB external drive to compensate.
My sister's first computer was a TI computer that was all housed together as one unit. The floppies were the size of a record album and the drive slot was the same height as the monitor.
I love these little strolls down memory lane.
Ha - yep taking my stroll down memory lane as I recall all the tech I've seen/encounters
1. My 1st computer had 20MB hard drive and 750kb memory
2. I started adding disk space within 2 years - I bought a 40mb extra internal disk and installed it myself
3. I was once with the prodigy online service; I actually liked this service. I remember during the 1st gulf war (circa 1991) I used to read news updates and even studied the weapons and armor craft of the armies involved. They did a good job of having online access to all the weaponry. I know that the folks at compuserve thought we prodigy users were all a bunch of p*ssies.
4. I tried Napster right after it was released and was exasperated that I only had a dialup modem and most of the libraries avilable with other users had DSL or cable and I was envious. it took almost 2 hours to download a song from Napster - I can now purchase 3 songs a minute from iTunes - God, dialup was slow
5. I've now had DSL for almost 4 years and would NEVER go back!!
6. I carry my laptop with me everywhere I go now. My wife was mad as hell at first when I would bring it along but now, when we're on a trip together, she spends more time on it than I do (sharing photos and stories with her friends). LOL
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My first computer had a 20 mb hard drive. Think about that. I could do just about everything I do today with 400 gb or whatever. The software was not bloated then as it is now. 1.44 mb disks held enough. Mostly used for backing up or transferring files like we do now with memory sticks.
shareWe have to remember that Dale is known in the movie for being the guy who collects viruses. It might have had nothing to do with his job at Cathedral, but he knows lots of people in the computer industry, and one thing led to another and the disk was passed to him. He was very knowledgeable about the Praetorians, so much so that he knew not to talk on the phone with Angela about them and was flying from San Francisco to Venice, CA to tell this whole conspiracy theory to Angela when he died. Unfortunately, Dale underestimated their power.
shareYeah, Angela isolated the virus and sent it back to him via Fedex (Remember "wait I have one outgoing too"). Toward the end, when she got to "her" (the imposter Angela's desk) by using the fire alarm system she found the virus she had forwarded to Dale there...she remembered what it was supposedly capable of (I won't get into the silliness of it) so she grabbed it when she ran for the Mascone Center.
sharedude it's 2014, why do you still replying to comments?
shareI like threads that go on for years and escaped destruction by IMDB. Some threads of other shows only have posts going back 3 months. It's so interesting to see what people said years ago, and also the same questions don't have to be asked and answered over and over as they are when new viewers can't read older threads.
shareIt was a *yawn* joke.
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