[ Retro Scan of the Week ] CompuServe Borg Cube
March 2nd, 2009 by Benj Edwards
Resistance is futile. (click for full advertisement)
Long-time readers of VC&G may recall me talking about my adventures on CompuServe from time to time. Needless to say, they never looked like this. But I did have a few nightmares featuring enormous floating hive-mind spaceships hooked up to my computer when I was 12.
On second thought, maybe this thing is the machine God uses to create snow — if snow indeed exists.
Discussion topic of the week: Star Trek or Star Wars? Better yet: Han Solo vs. William T. Riker in a knife fight — who would win?
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March 2nd, 2009 at 10:48 am
STAR WARS. HAN SOLO. END OF DISCUSSION. 🙂
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Star Wars and that scruffy-lookin’ nerfherder by a country parsec.
Oh, and snow definitely exists, because I’m up to my knees shoveling it today.
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I was entranced enough by this image to scan it in some time ago:
http://digitize.textfiles.com/items/1988-compuserve-higher-intelligence/
There’s something about the thinking behind this image where you have to say “I don’t know if they thought the implications through.”
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Quick! Han Solo vs. Jason Scott in a blog fight: who would win?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Han Solo would win if he could cheat and use his blaster. Kirk is too honest to use anything but a knife. But Kirk would win if Han didn’t have his blaster for some reason.
That borg cube doesn’t look like what brought snow to me. But it might have been hidden above that thick cloud layer.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 am
I like Star Trek more than Star Wars, but in a battle between Han Solo and William Ryker, my money would be on Han.
However, I think Kirk could kick Han’s butt, since Han’s blaster would hit Kirk just enough to tear his shirt open, then Kirk would beat him up mano a mano.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Star Wars. Unless you’re talking about pinball tables.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Man, Ryker is a big girleyman. Han could easily take him. Hell, Wesley might be able to take him.
And that ship looks more like a Borg shaft than a Borg cube. I remember the ad well, though, and have it in a few Creative Computing mags on my shelf. Good times.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I’m a fan of both Star Wars and Star Trek. But in the Han vs. Riker knife battle, Han clearly wins.
March 4th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
You’re right, Blake. But “Borg shaft” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. 🙂
Riker not a girlie-man, though: you guys have got to remember that he’s an expert at Anbo-jyutsu and Parrises squares — he could whup Solo in either of those semi-violent futuristic sports.
But Riker’s probably not as familiar with knives in the 24th century as Solo might be, so I’d give Solo the edge in the knife fight. Then again, I seem to remember Riker holding his own against Worf in a few holodeck battles…hmm.
This is fun. I think I’ll change the blog’s name to “Vintage Star Wars and Star Trek.” Forget the computer stuff.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Imagine if Sims 2 existed in 1988. That’s about the amount of storage space you’d need to run it using 1988 hard drive technology…
…And it would take about 3 days to launch the game.
March 14th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Yeah, its not even a contest. Riker is such a wuss.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Fantastic ad, like something out of Archigram or an architectural blog.
April 10th, 2010 at 11:31 am
hi there the borg colective always win they would just asemalte the computition untile there was zero computition resitance is futile by the borg colective sayings you say that sims 2 existed in 1988 the storage capacity would have too be huge lucky for the borg colective the use a laser hard drives at 610 tb/s or 610 terabytes per second gaming in nano seconds
July 5th, 2010 at 6:45 am
dont bring a knife to a gin fight… – Solo .. or was that indie?