coliver988
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I know Star Trek Voyager used gel packs in places. http://fsd.trekships.org/operations/gelpacks.html...
It was either Red Dwarf of STTNG that used gel packs for computers...
I know Star Trek Voyager used gel packs in places. http://fsd.trekships.org/operations/gelpacks.html...
It was either Red Dwarf of STTNG that used gel packs for computers...
Or, you could imply swap out all the fancy schmancy molecular microprocessing stuff, and replace a lot of stuff with toggle switches, and fly the old fashioned way. Your most complex computer might be a 286 with a 5.25" floppy drive ... if that.
Bingo, no more worrying about virus. I'm a genius![]()
Even calculators? Or fist gen Apples with casette drives? If so, then I stand corrected, but it strikes me that the ultimate way of defeating virus would have been to deny it its environment.
Control cables on yokes and thruster valves instead of hardware modules interpolating signals via wire or fibreoptic. Just my thoughts on the matter.
Well sure, if you are using TL 8 silicon. Who wants to work with stone knives skinning bears?
I know Star Trek Voyager used gel packs in places. http://fsd.trekships.org/operations/gelpacks.html
Everybody if your fancy ginsu knives jump up and try to kill you.
TL9 handheld devices were capable of transmitting virus to ship's computers.
Whcih is why my argument for virus is that it must needs be a code-as-focus psionic life form.
... Ghost in the Shell type of thing?
the Gel Packs in ST: Voyager were for system use not any part of a computer. If I remember correctly they were for transfer of power and tended to get burnt out whenever the ship received damage. computer memory was stored in bubble type chips
... Ghost in the Shell type of thing?
They suffered from Treknobabble and "As the plot demands" a lot ( *Shock* ).
Sometimes they were parts of the master computers, other times only subsystems (replicators), and sometimes did nothing at all.
The 'normal' TNG/ST:V trek computers used "isolinear" chips which were essentially optical processors/storage. And before that in TOS it was 'duotronics' which looked suspiciously like 60's/70's electronics
No pisonics in GITS. They had radios that fit inside the skull. Short range. A car with a radio or another signal booster had to be nearby for long range comm.
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But brain hacks could get past the cyber brain firewalls. Some so good the victim had a virtual experience thought it was real. In the original movie there was one that effected the plot.
Ho baby! I just came up with this. Some jacker walks onto a starship, he's got hacks running in his mind, and he tries to jack into the ship to steal it. He makes it to low orbit, but Starport security is waiting with a kill switch, and not only do they shut down the ship, but in the process, shut down the hijacker.
That's just ... evil :devil: