RE: Traveler Computers (Was "Re: (TFT) Orc Swill?")

[Pasha and Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

Hi all,
	I have a copy of Mayday, a traveler combat
supplement. When you got a several ton computer it
could run 10 (!) programs at the same time. One of 
these was a security program that monitored where 
your passengers were walking. Another (which took
up 2 of your ten slots I believe) was a program that
did the accounts of the starship.

	The Traveler computers _were_ laughably 
underpowered.

	Rick

On Saturday, September 01, 2001 7:11 PM, mark@ccountry.net [SMTP:mark@ccountry.net] wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
>    I don't recall that, but if I do recall the Murphiy's Rules properly, it was 
> comparring the tonnage size and amount of programs that could be run 
> simultaneously (sp?) of the Traveller computers with the capabilities of the 
> "home computer" of the time - mostly C-64's, Apple II's and IBM AT(?) and 
> drawing the conclusion that "1 tonnage" of the 1980's home computers could do 
> more.
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