Re: Traveller and modern electronics
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Originally Posted by warellis
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Having said this, I've often heard that for starships but do those same assumptions ever show up for day-to-day civilian electronics, like something you would use in your home and such? Are there any civilian electronic tech or computers that really show "yeah this was definitely designed before the Digital Age?"
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There's the old, old Murphy's Rules panel titled "Three Tons, 16K", discussing how unrealistic Traveller's computers were even at the time. IIRC, that particular strip either predates or is as old as the original Apple Macintosh, dating to somewhere in the early-to-mid 1980s.
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