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

["Ty Beard" <tbeard@tyler.net>]

Actually, no real-world capacity or performance is noted in the original
Traveller. The (incorrrect) conventional wisdom seems to stem from the fact
that Traveller computers take up several tons of dispacement. Many gamers
fail to realize that in Traveller, a "ton" is a unit of *volume* not mass.
So when one considers the normal size of a computer workstation with
monitors, input devices, desk and chair, the displacement of Traveller
computers does not seem excessive.

--Ty Beard



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey May" <jmay1@kc.rr.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: Traveller Computers (Was "Re: (TFT) Orc Swill?")


> 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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