Stephen:
If you go to this link, you will see how I've changed the Classic Traveller Canon to take in account that as computation power historically increased, the computer size decreased.
https://xa.yimg.com/df/Entropic_Worlds_Campaign/Computers+-+Traveller+My+Take.doc?token=uUrxak03DDrzI1sCwLZXbHy8d8_ZfPh6-udprknxHnIjZ5ctOM_ctgbHXPeelHm02i1MU7bVPi-6VyNhYvH0EC1WJRB49n4L1NnBpY_y2XJx1H4zAP3GQS2HyFPNqdbD4CoeexLNZj8&type=download
YMMV
Eric
7am to 5pm Mountain Time 8pm to Midnight Mountain Time
From: "Stephen Rider [Traveller_TNE]" <>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 5:18 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] FF&S Computers
I hope everyone's gearing up for a great weekend!
I haven't given up...totally on my near future FF&S project, though I will say that it's becoming less and less FF&S with a few bits added in and more and more "Atomic Rocket guidelines with FF&S filling in missing information" (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php)
So that brings me to the question: Are FF&S computer's still 'realistic?'
I put together a jump test probe and it's basically the smallest jump drive possible, 20 cubic meters of hydrogen to power two jump-1 hops and three fiberoptic computers, those come to 36 cubic meters, about a third of the total volume of the probe.
Based on everything else that I've read that seems so out of proportion as to be laughable. So I figure that there has to be more to what the "computers" are rather than just the processing.
Do the computer sizes need to be adjusted?
To the fellow that suggested GURPS Space, there's a heck of a lot of merit to that system for roughing out a basic idea and unless you're going to be going through and calculating the delta V of every little part of your logistics chain, it's more than good enough and the results aren't "wrong" they're just not precise. Which once you get into the better drives isn't a problem, but interplanetary gas guzzlers like nuclear thermal rockets need something a bit more specific.
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If you go to this link, you will see how I've changed the Classic Traveller Canon to take in account that as computation power historically increased, the computer size decreased.
https://xa.yimg.com/df/Entropic_Worlds_Campaign/Computers+-+Traveller+My+Take.doc?token=uUrxak03DDrzI1sCwLZXbHy8d8_ZfPh6-udprknxHnIjZ5ctOM_ctgbHXPeelHm02i1MU7bVPi-6VyNhYvH0EC1WJRB49n4L1NnBpY_y2XJx1H4zAP3GQS2HyFPNqdbD4CoeexLNZj8&type=download
YMMV
Eric
7am to 5pm Mountain Time 8pm to Midnight Mountain Time
From: "Stephen Rider [Traveller_TNE]" <>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 5:18 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] FF&S Computers
I hope everyone's gearing up for a great weekend!
I haven't given up...totally on my near future FF&S project, though I will say that it's becoming less and less FF&S with a few bits added in and more and more "Atomic Rocket guidelines with FF&S filling in missing information" (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php)
So that brings me to the question: Are FF&S computer's still 'realistic?'
I put together a jump test probe and it's basically the smallest jump drive possible, 20 cubic meters of hydrogen to power two jump-1 hops and three fiberoptic computers, those come to 36 cubic meters, about a third of the total volume of the probe.
Based on everything else that I've read that seems so out of proportion as to be laughable. So I figure that there has to be more to what the "computers" are rather than just the processing.
Do the computer sizes need to be adjusted?
To the fellow that suggested GURPS Space, there's a heck of a lot of merit to that system for roughing out a basic idea and unless you're going to be going through and calculating the delta V of every little part of your logistics chain, it's more than good enough and the results aren't "wrong" they're just not precise. Which once you get into the better drives isn't a problem, but interplanetary gas guzzlers like nuclear thermal rockets need something a bit more specific.
--
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