Re: Computers
In reply to #4121 Computers and well starports .... by Adam Naylor
[email removed] (Adam Naylor) writes: > > A tech 11 hand computer (about 1/5 the size of a milk container) has > a 20 meg hard disk and 2 meg memory . A TL 8 hand computer can have 2 meg RAM. Talk to someone with a Psion Series 3 or a Hewlett-Packard 95. A TL 9, or maybe even late TL 8 hand computer will have 20 meg of something. It won't be a hard disc as we know it, because gyroscopic effects would make using a hard disc in a hand computer a bad idea. (An ACR with a 20 MB hard disc supplying both gyro-stabilisation and data on the enemy's forces might be an idea, though. :-) But I would not be surprised to see some sort of chip become available, such as the next generation of Flash EPROM, which allows that sort of storage in a hand computer. And a TL 11 hand computer? That would probably have at least 100 MB in some sort of memory, be it RAM, EPROM or whatever is being used at TL 11. - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]