Memory diskettes were droid parts that functioned as the central processing area of a unit.[1] Such pieces of technology were similar to the droid brains and the verbobrains.[2] Professor Cantebarius H. Broom, a deranged scientist, was known to deactivate droids by removing their memory diskettes.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The memory diskettes were first mentioned in Troublesome Outing,[1] a Spanish story of undetermined canonicity that was published in 1986.[3] Abel G. Peña, who translated the story in English for the first time in 2013, referred to the use of the word "diskette" as a "quaint anachronism." In the 1980s, massive-memory cloud storage and flash drives were still inconceivable. But nowadays, diskettes look out of place in the futuristic Star Wars universe.[4]
Appearances[]
- "Troublesome Outing" — MyComyc 5 (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Troublesome Outing" — MyComyc 5
- ↑ The Essential Guide to Droids
- ↑ Droids and Ewoks Return: Spain's Lost Star Wars Comic Strips on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Hasslein Blog — Ee Chee Wa Maa! Translating Spain's Long-Lost Ewoks and Droids Comics on Blogspot (backup link)