Pocket Computer

[Warmaster40k]

this is just screaming for a up date 2 words 16 megabytes

[Nekira Sudacne]

personally, I don't worry about the actual size.

I just kinda run it like it has 30 gigs or something. to date, no PC has actually strained their use so it's been mostly irrelevant.

[Temporalmage]

The RGMG says just times the computer by 100 compared to whatever is available today, as any listed stats for computers would be laughable in only a few years.

[Mack]

this is just screaming for a up date 2 words 16 megabytes

Hey! That was kickin' back when it was written, for those of us who remember...

What were we talking about?

[Adam of the Old Kingdom]

yes, Startrek uses QUADs.
Killer quads. (will resist wheel chair jokes)

the best bet is not to use any actual numbers.
just make up what things it can do, like speach recognition, holograms, only geeks need to know actual numbers, then just tell them 100 times better than what we have now.

you could also make up how it is done, integrated bio-mimic circuits on optic wafer CPU, in built cupnstring networking and Pretendographics holographic touch screen.

[Dead Boy]

For Technobable I use the Star Trek:RPG books. The have tables for such things.

Don't they use "isoquads" or something like that?

[Adam of the Old Kingdom]

computer use Isolinear chips and circuits.

anyone got the ST technical manual?

[Daniel Stoker]

computer use Isolinear chips and circuits.

anyone got the ST technical manual?

And 'neural gel-packs' too.



Daniel Stoker

[Adam of the Old Kingdom]

Neural gell packs.
Oh no, our ship has a cold!!!
nice idea, that's about as far as it seemed to get.

Isolinear chips = memory sticks.

and it's not BS, the correct term is "Techno-babble"


"It's ne good cap'an, if I give 'er any more I'll blow!" - Scotty

[Adam of the Old Kingdom]

OK, time to talk nerdy.

Memory storage for main core usage is provided by 2048 deicated modules of 144 isolinear optical storage chips. under LCARS software control, these modules provide average dynamic access to memory at 4600 kiloquads/s.

so as you can see, no matter how much computers have increased in power since this was thought up (published 1991), the made up numbers are still well in advance of what we have now.

but I'd stick to functionality, not system statistics.

[Borast]

That's true...my PDA has 64meg of memory. (57.11 usable right now... )

When you consider that the WWII and after computers filled buildings and had, what, 2-300k of memory?

My FIRST computer, a TRS-80 Colour Computer (original model) had 16k back in '84(?)

Side note: In the early 80's, one manufacturer created a computer with something along the lines of 1 meg of memory, and all the bells and whistles that would be "standard" less than ten years later at similar levels of functionality, and despite only being priced at $1-2000, failed... The reasoning was "No one will ever need a computer with that much memory, etc..."