Those were very heady days... T4 was a promising thing... until we got our hands on it. Then, it was just a let down, especially after MWM's excitement about it.
His 25 years Game designing and my then 15 years GMing came to very different conclusions about what makes a good task system... or ship design system... or personal combat system...
Surprisingly, tho, it was very playable PROVIDED the players didn't have a prior "Favorite Traveller Edition/Flavor". It played well enough, and ad enough in one place, bt as for erratta, it was, well, worse than MT. MT had erratta mostly in tables. T4 had erratta in rules, tables, layout, AND had Cris Foss art...
And it STILL did not give all marines Battledress...
(THose of us in the "Not all marines are BD troopies" crowd used to ram this fact down the throats of the "LKW-ist All Marines are BD Troops to the very last potato peeler" crowd. SOme on list, some off, and some over here... I basically pointed out that bit to Hunter, quite vehemently, in fact, so that the IM Class wouldn't FORCE us to modify it if we chose to follow the Non-Loren mode... Hunter, if I didn't apologize then, sorry for being SUCH a litigant about that... but it was an important inclusivity point. Thank-you...)