Are we assuming that Chip Chase, a genius technohead with regular access to alien computers and the gregarious aliens in charge of same, never had any upgrades made to his personal home workstation?Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
With current cutting-edge lab tech, we should be able to squeeze about 100 terabits into a volume the size and shape of a 5.25-inch floppy dish. That might be enough to encode a compressed version of Prime - and that's assuming that Cybertronian tech was only 25 years ahead of 1980s-era humanity.
Another assumption, one I like a little better, is that the floppy disk didn't contain Prime himself - it contained a three-megabit key sequence which would unlock an access channel to the Allspark via the Matrix and find/retrieve Prime's actual pattern. Or it encoded precise time-space co-ordinates for a read-only timescoop to find/copy an older version of Prime's laser core, plus a fractal sequence which would act on the timescooped data to create a rough outline of events from the timescooped point to the moment of disk encoding.
In other words, anything can be technobabbled away.
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