Computers and power usage.

TML Admin said the following:
> Bundle: 517
> Archive-Message-Number: 6318
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 93 12:04:02 GMT
> From: "Anthony K. Baggaley" [email removed]
> Subject: Virus&Antares

>    I think the reason the Virus sounds so wrong in Traveller is that it doesn't
>  match with how Traveller Computers appeared in the rules. In Book 2 they
>  were one step above the Difference Engine- the MIGHT have used that new
>  fangled Silicon Chip stuff (or maybe not- the power consumption was closer to
>  a BIG electric motor turning those brass  wheels very fast....) It was a
>  logical step to assume it included various control systems in the cost/mass
>  as well, but then MT came out and you had to add them seperately (I used the
>  MT design system a lot, but now it's gone I feel relived :))

I used to think that the power consumption and size of the computers
was really out of line.  Then I started working for Cray Research.

Really fast machines with about the same floor space requirements and
power consumption as Classic Traveller computers.  We're not talking
about Macintoshes and PC clones you plug into the wall after all.

Matt

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