On 24Oct2019 0342, Zane Healy wrote:
> 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.

That and that Traveller spaceship computers have nearly perfect uptimes,
assuming nobody runs home-brewed programs on them (in CT, where this is
doable). And the computer's size includes all its supporting hardware,
like cooling systems, which are probably not small for such systems.

On top of that, people forget that Traveller's tons are a measure of
*volume*, not *mass*.

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