ForeverShogo
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Well, in the original Fallout games you can find desktop computers that would be right at home in the 90s. They even had a knockoff of Microsoft and Windows. (Macrosoft and Wyndoze.)
Microchips are a thing. Transistors are also a thing. Fallout 4 and 76 make reference to transistor radios, and there's a terminal entry by Cabot some have taken to mean that transistors were invented just a couple of years before the nukes were launched.
In 2015 someone who worked on the early Fallout games talked about how their society focused on robotics and atomics while neglecting miniaturization. Not to say miniaturization never happened, just that it wasn't considered a priority in tech development.
An example he gave was that some of the cameras you can buy for like 15 dollars in a Best Buy actually could exist in Pre-War America, but actually doing such a thing would be considered so exotic and extravagant that it would cost you something like 15 million dollars.
Essentially, miniaturization is treated as one of those crazy and unnecessary things that only disgustingly rich people would actually splurge on. The equivalent of doing something like capping all your teeth with diamonds or eating a cake that uses gold leafing as frosting or something.
This same dev said one of the things that bugs him the most is when people act like technology stopped advancing in the 50s. Technology still developed, and the crazy super science is proof of just how advanced Fallout America was. The technology just looks different because their priorities when developing it were different.
Microchips are a thing. Transistors are also a thing. Fallout 4 and 76 make reference to transistor radios, and there's a terminal entry by Cabot some have taken to mean that transistors were invented just a couple of years before the nukes were launched.
In 2015 someone who worked on the early Fallout games talked about how their society focused on robotics and atomics while neglecting miniaturization. Not to say miniaturization never happened, just that it wasn't considered a priority in tech development.
An example he gave was that some of the cameras you can buy for like 15 dollars in a Best Buy actually could exist in Pre-War America, but actually doing such a thing would be considered so exotic and extravagant that it would cost you something like 15 million dollars.
Essentially, miniaturization is treated as one of those crazy and unnecessary things that only disgustingly rich people would actually splurge on. The equivalent of doing something like capping all your teeth with diamonds or eating a cake that uses gold leafing as frosting or something.
This same dev said one of the things that bugs him the most is when people act like technology stopped advancing in the 50s. Technology still developed, and the crazy super science is proof of just how advanced Fallout America was. The technology just looks different because their priorities when developing it were different.