Classic Traveller computer sizes make more sense when you start thinking about *durability*.  Tons of people are running computer hardware from the 70’s and 80’s.  The main problem is capacitors.  Some businesses still run hardware from the 60’s, and I think I ran across mention of one with a computer still running from the 50’s (they’re having more trouble keeping that one going).

We live in a world today where due to things like RoHS, and micro-miniturazation have resulted in hardware that dies after a few years, not so the stuff built 30-40 years ago.

Zane



On Oct 23, 2019, at 5:32 AM, Graham Donald (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

I found this trio of videos covering the restoration of a Commodore 64c computer that had allegedly been left out in the open for at least a decade. Rather surprisingly the motherboard held up quite well under the abuse. I wonder if a scenario could be got out of something like this.











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