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. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at shadowgard dot com