Penny Dreadful, Edison Cylinders

[David cgc]

I would assume duotronics is electronics, but with two (two what? Not my department). And then multitronics was duotronics, but moreso. Same with quads being bits or bytes, but to the fourth degree. In the most impressive sense imaginable.

Now, an isoton.... By analogy, it's referencing measuring explosive yield in terms of the equivalent mass of TNT, so the question is, what are the exploding, and why is it being measured in "isotons" rather than normal tons? Maybe iso-masses include stuff that aren't entirely conventional matter, like dark matter, or dilithium having a connection with subspace. It'd have to be a relatively weak explosive, if it takes two or three hundred (iso)tons of it to match the smallish amount of antimatter in one photon torpedo. Maybe dilithium itself can be weaponized in some way? Or maybe it doesn't have to explode, I think there are cases where dilithium itself as used as a power source, so that's the standard energy output.

 

[knightgrace]

I went through that idea, back in the 1980s. Because if you study the word 'Duotronics', when broken down into the meaning of 'Duo', combined with tropics- you get the study of the manipulation of two subatomic particles.

Interesting enough this is about when Ovonics was developed. Which, originally ment 0, 1, 2 or base three...

Just saw an article a few days ago, that is saying that they have been re-investigating the whole concept into -1, 0, +1...
Why? Because in some cases it can store more data.

So why not base ten? Been tried already, most early computers use base ten because of the telephone. The problem with that is the time it takes to reset from nine. Too long.

Just remember dial-up. Not touch tone.

Which brings me back to the problem at hand.

People have preconceived notions.

 

[DSG2k]

"Nomad was one of the stepping stones to the Enterprise" and "Gene expected computers to improve" are not the grand payoffs that anyone would have hoped for after reading that opening post where you were all:

"This is Duotronics.
Why? Think of the technological change from the Edison Cylinders to High Fidelity Sterophonic Systems.
...
Exactly."

Remember when I said there didn't seem to ever actually be any 'there' there? Well, we're there.

Good luck with your future posts.

 

[FredH]

.People have preconceived notions.

…yes, that is true.