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Hype Tech series, Science Fiction what we expected vs what we got.


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2023 Jan 31, 10:44am   86 views  0 comments

by Tenpoundbass   ➕follow (7)   💰tip   ignore  

If you go back and watch all of the SiFi movies with robots, and advanced computers they all had a common theme. They seemed to make it seem that the Robots, and Computers were practically indestructible. I can name countless movies that has the latest Generation of Robot, where the protagonist always ends up in a Robot Bone yard of antiquated Robots, just all laying waiting for someone to insert some universal power battery pack to bring it back to life. The computer components are all fine, the circuits are all fine, the only thing it needed was a battery charge, or a broken mechanical part on a limb. But the most robust part of those robots were the circuits that somehow survived decades or centuries. Even Star Wars featured state of the art robots along side battle scared robots that scuffed and seemed to be as old as Yoda. That movie with Robin Williams had a mix of old and new robots, that movie with the kid from the sixth sense had a mix or robots, the Fifth Element with Bruce Willis, had the old and new robots. It seemed once a robot was made the only thing that could stop it, was removing or destroying the power supply. Almost none of those storylines explained how they stayed charged. I suspect we were supposed to have micro Nuclear Fuel Cells by now, but the 80's "No Nukes" movement put the kybosh on that.
We can't even buy a Laptop that will last before the next gen comes out but it wasn't always that way. I remember my first computer an AT&T Globalyst made by NCR and NEC the motherboard on that thing had real discrete components none of this micro surface mount stuff. That computer could survived rumbles and tumbles and keep chugging along.
Although I regret it now, I finally threw it away in 2010 as I got tired of moving it everywhere I went, and never plugged it in. Even though it still worked and booted up Windows 95, or DOS just fine. I wish like hell now I had canibalized all of the electrical components off it, because those fire resistant resistors and axial capacitors are a fortune now.

What happened to Hiwatt?
Previously operating under an arrangement whereby the UK Hiwatt company was owned and run by the controversial Rick Harrison, while the US rights were owned by a separate company, the business has now been purchased by a Canadian entrepreneur who has assembled a team of leading amplifier and effects designers.Apr 12, 2018


I have a friend who is one of those Amplifier designers and amp techs. When he designs a circuit he buys Capacitors and Resistors that cost thousands of dollars. They are sourced from places like Raytheon, and companies that make them for NASA projects. They are components that are designed to stand up to abuse and extreme use, that your average smart based electronics can't stand up to. But they are freaking huge. Each component is as big as tube of lipstick or bigger. This is why Smart tech will never be as robust as the 60's space age tech. Those components were huge, fireproof, and abuse tolerant. The capacitors will still be in spec 50 years from now, no leakage of electrolytic discharge.

We're hearing reports coming out of Ukraine, how our very sensitive high tech battle gear is failing them. It works fine the first day, but after a day of cold rain and mud, the next time they go to use it the systems wont boot, or go on line, even though the munitions are perfectly ready to fire, but can't because the smart shit is on the blink.

This is all stuff you guys should be thinking about when you see some half ass development of Hype Tech, that has a flimsy touch screen for the interface, and the electric comports are the same crap that is in the smart phone you have to replace every 2 years, because it can't stand up to the abuse.
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