Mainframe Computer

[Terry Mixon]

Meet hot singles who want to date you, in your subsector.

I can see a booming business in brides from disadvantaged worlds brought in by low berth.

 

[Condottiere]

Sleeping Beauties.

Preselection, before defrosting.

Also, being on ice, you don't have to worry about the biological clock.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Sleeping Beauties.

Preselection, before defrosting.

Also, being on ice, you don't have to worry about the biological clock.

You’ve just named the business and business model.

 

[Geir]

Sleeping Beauties.

Preselection, before defrosting.

Also, being on ice, you don't have to worry about the biological clock.

So are they being peddled by a group of seven (a septet or heptad according to the AI, but I'd rather go with a baker's half dozen, rounded up) Geonee?

 

[Terry Mixon]

So are they being peddled by a group of seven (a septet or heptad according to the AI, but I'd rather go with a baker's half dozen, rounded up) Geonee?

*scribbles furiously*

Yes. Yes, they are.

 

[ProfGrizzlyJon]

I tackled this a couple of years ago (https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/retrotech-and-ships-computers.123925/)
The cluster rules create the backlog because of the geometric progression required to increase bandwidth (see examples)
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I would recommend a simple fix that says:
This approach uses a geometric expansion of TL8 Personal Computer/1 units, upgraded through advancing tech levels. Though the base architecture remains unchanged, each TL step improves efficiency through better fabrication, denser integration, and increased bandwidth capacity.

To determine how many computers are needed in a cluster, square the additional bandwidth and divide it by the retrotech advantage—the difference between the current TL and TL8, raised to the power of the current TL. The result represents the scaling factor for cluster size: the lower the result, the fewer computers required.
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For example, a TL10 Improved Cluster/25 with 24 additional bandwidth computes as (24²) ÷ (2¹⁰) = 5.63, while a TL15 Ultimate Cluster/60 with 59 additional bandwidth computes as (59²) ÷ (7¹⁵) ≈ 2.87. Higher tech levels allow clusters to extract more from the same foundation—turning an obsolete computer into a backbone for vast, modern supercomputing arrays.

Granted, it isn’t perfect. But it worked and wasn’t OP

 

[Condottiere]

You get a bunch, I hear they are now very communeistic, Genoee together.

They self dig out a planetoid (hull).

Do some trafficking with orphans and runaways.

Set out for colony worlds with gender imbalances.

They even have mechanical models, for the more budget conscious.