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Posts: 295 | Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 10:57 AM
While watching Tron (again) I suddenly thought of the connection of Tron disks and CD's! Because Tron disks hold information and so do CD's but this was before CD's were invented!!!
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 11:02 AM
Could be. Come to think of it. Cd's do hold more than the old 5.25 and 3.5 inch diskette. Even the DVD hold more than the current cd's that are available that being usedon regular cd's that are being used on the computer these days.
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Posts: 3,488 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 12:15 PM
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Posts: 2,939 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 12:27 PM
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foilism
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Posts: 1,064 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 1:15 PM
Yeah, I was listening to the comentary of tron [nerd] and Eleenshaw started taking about the relation between the tron disks and modern day computor disks, but that was for the lazerdisk -- so i think he was talking about floppies - still disks tho.
And he said about how the people and companies working on tron predicted the future of computers in ways, like the internet and disks. I like this cool idea.
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Posts: 295 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 1:17 PM
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"No half-bricks," he said to no-one in particular. "Have to use sand?"
"You're going to attack them with a sockful of sand?"
"No, I'm going to run away from them. The sockful of sand is for when they follow.
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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Posts: 1,064 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 1:18 PM
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Posts: 36 | YOU'RE WRONG SPEEDER
on Tuesday, June, 03, 2003 3:49 PM
CDs (or compact disks) were actually first created in 1979, in a joint venture between Sony and Philips. If I understand correctly this is several years before Tron was created.
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Posts: 2,691 | Re: Tron Disks
on Wednesday, June, 04, 2003 12:40 PM
| Scuzzy Wrote:What, am I the only one who thought of hard disk platters? :P |
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Posts: 160 | What the tron disk meant to me
on Sunday, June, 08, 2003 11:21 PM
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Posts: 2,232 | Re: Tron Disks
on Tuesday, June, 10, 2003 11:38 AM
I thought it was a reference to the dominance of disk-shaped data storage media in general. I don't think the Data Disc (note the 'disc' spelling is generally used instead of 'disk' when referring to data storage media) referred to any specific media such as magnetic tape (which is stored on disc-shaped reels), HDD and floppy platters or even optical media. Instead, it was more a logical extension or expression of the fact that at the time (and still today) just about all media for storing data was disc-shaped (even the little donut-shaped magnets that made up the memory cores of old mainframes.) Punch cards excepted of course.
Also about the discs, or rather what they contain and what their contents represent: I think of the old, ever-true axiom "Knowledge Is Power". The discs store a program's knowledge/data/instructions/information and the program can use that disc's contents to its advantage. Best example: When the information needed to shut down the MCP's illegal activities was downloaded into TRON's Data Disc. That knowledge was indeed power. This is probably also why TRON was so good at fighting with the Data Discs. He was written to watchdog other programs and shut them down if any illegal activity was taking place. He was made to shut other programs down! His programming (the information in his disc) made him what he was.
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Posts: 295 | Re: Tron Disks
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Rincewind thought about this and then, with an air of finality, started to take off his last sock.
"No half-bricks," he said to no-one in particular. "Have to use sand?"
"You're going to attack them with a sockful of sand?"
"No, I'm going to run away from them. The sockful of sand is for when they follow.
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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