automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (22 Jun 2016 17:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Bruce Johnson (22 Jun 2016 18:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (22 Jun 2016 23:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (22 Jun 2016 23:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Kenneth Barns (22 Jun 2016 23:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (22 Jun 2016 23:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Kenneth Barns (23 Jun 2016 02:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Richard Aiken (23 Jun 2016 04:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Tim (23 Jun 2016 05:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Bruce Johnson (23 Jun 2016 18:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (23 Jun 2016 23:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Tim (24 Jun 2016 08:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Andrew Long (24 Jun 2016 15:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (25 Jun 2016 00:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Tim (25 Jun 2016 08:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Richard Aiken (25 Jun 2016 08:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Tim (25 Jun 2016 09:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (25 Jun 2016 20:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Tim (24 Jun 2016 07:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Bruce Johnson (26 Jun 2016 23:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (10 Jul 2016 00:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Richard Aiken (10 Jul 2016 05:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Abu Dhabi (10 Jul 2016 05:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications shadow@xxxxxx (10 Jul 2016 09:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications shadow@xxxxxx (10 Jul 2016 09:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Abu Dhabi (10 Jul 2016 11:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Richard Aiken (10 Jul 2016 11:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Kelly St. Clair (11 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Bruce Johnson (11 Jul 2016 14:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Jim Vassilakos (11 Jul 2016 20:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Abu Dhabi (11 Jul 2016 21:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Richard Aiken (11 Jul 2016 22:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications B Kruger (12 Jul 2016 06:58 UTC)

Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications shadow@xxxxxx 10 Jul 2016 09:20 UTC

On 10 Jul 2016 at 7:57, Abu Dhabi wrote:

> I think much of the Traveller Zeerust/Schizo Tech is intentional. I
> have heard before that not having nanobots is, for example, in order
> to preserve the feel of the setting. Fallout explained the lack of
> small computers by the people never having invented transistors in
> that timeline, everything being still based on cathode ray tubes.

You mean "vacuum tubes". Cathode ray tuubes are a specific *type* of
tube used for displays.

And you can actually make tubes *really* small. Like the size of a
dime. We actually did this for some stuff that we wanted to be EMP
resistant at one time.

TIMMs (Thermally Intergrated Micro Modules" were essenitally a brick
of dime sized tubes, inducctors and capacitors. Made of ceramics and
refractory alloys, they were a 3D layout and rather than heater
filaments in the tubes, the whole block was heated to a few hundred
degrees.

Besides being EMP resistant, they were also rugged as hell. Yeah,
they needed to get heated really hot, but dsince you needed really
good insulation anyway,. *keeping* them that hot didn't use a lot of
insulation.

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