Traveller Computers (Was "Re: (TFT) Orc Swill?")

["Jeffrey May" <jmay1@kc.rr.com>]

If I remember rightly, somewhere in the original three-volume rule set there
is a comment that says a computer of a given type -- a type capable of
running a small starship's drives -- is comparable to a home computer.
That's where the "less powerful" thing came from.  I always put that comment
down to excessive humility on the part of the game's author and just ignored
it when I ran Traveller.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: RE: (TFT) Orc Swill?

(snip)

> That remind me of another mythological rule flaw for another RPG -
> Traveller. The 'common wisdom' was that the computers in Traveller were
> less powerful than a computer circa 1980.
>
> But the comptuers in Traveller were holographic projecting, voice & touch
> controlled, and could make calculations in seconds that would require
> supercomputers today, regulated complete enviornments and were
> automatically networked....
>
> Never did figure that one....
(snip)
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