How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks<article>
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<p>Call the engine room and get Scotty to the bridge: When the long-lost words of
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were found on 5.25-inch floppies—yes, floppy disks—it would take a Starfleet-level engineering effort to recover them.</p><p>Roddenberry, who died in 1991, apparently left behind a couple of shoebox-sized containers of those big floppy disks.</p><p>The problem? As any techie knows, floppy drives went out off fashion around the turn of the 21st century. Even if you bought a used 5.25-inch floppy drive off of Cyrano Jones on space station K7, you wouldn't be able to read the files on a modern computer, let alone plug in the drive.</p><p>Roddenberry's estate knew of two possible computers the author had used to write those final words. One had been sold off in a
charity auction and the second wouldn't boot when plugged in.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3018315/storage/star-trek-creators-lost-words-recovered-from-old-floppies.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks
