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Of course, to load the data from the floppy you need a bare minimum of firmware. The disk by itself doesn't do anything.
By the same token, the human genome doesn't do anything on it's own. It requires a human(?*) egg to develop anything significant.
*I'm not aware of any experiments where an animal cell was cloned with the DNA from a different species- what happens if you put a sheep nucleus into a horse egg and implant it in a horse? Is it like trying to load PROdos directly onto modern hardware?
There was/is a plan to resurrect the Woolly Mammoth, by putting Mammoth dna into an elephant egg.
The Wikipedia page on Interspecific Pregnancy links to an example on a Giant Panda genome put in a rabbit egg and brought to term in a cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_pregnancy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12135908
Also, I think Ventner denucleates the cell of something to serve as the host for his synthetic dna.
It looks like transfer of embryos between species has been successful, but not clones. I wouldn't call the panda/rabbit clone in a cat "brought to term", more like "had promising results".