On 10 Jul 2016 at 7:57, Abu Dhabi wrote:

> I think much of the Traveller Zeerust/Schizo Tech is intentional. I
> have heard before that not having nanobots is, for example, in order
> to preserve the feel of the setting. Fallout explained the lack of
> small computers by the people never having invented transistors in
> that timeline, everything being still based on cathode ray tubes.

You mean "vacuum tubes". Cathode ray tuubes are a specific *type* of
tube used for displays.

And you can actually make tubes *really* small. Like the size of a
dime. We actually did this for some stuff that we wanted to be EMP
resistant at one time.

TIMMs (Thermally Intergrated Micro Modules" were essenitally a brick
of dime sized tubes, inducctors and capacitors. Made of ceramics and
refractory alloys, they were a 3D layout and rather than heater
filaments in the tubes, the whole block was heated to a few hundred
degrees.

Besides being EMP resistant, they were also rugged as hell. Yeah,
they needed to get heated really hot, but dsince you needed really
good insulation anyway,. *keeping* them that hot didn't use a lot of
insulation.

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