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Originally Posted by kato13
Fully agree. I think the last time I looked at the data there were 600 Million desktops in use in 1997 and something like 80 million Laptops. Even with a 1/10 of 1 percent survival number that IMO invalidates the game assumption that computers would be almost non existent. I knew personally of 3000 which would have survived EMP in two different secure locations.
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Agree. But to rebutt myself a bit, I also agree with Webstral on some points. EMP hit in 1997, which would knock out a lot. Then you've got wear and tear after that - dodgy mains power supplies, failing hard drives (I think they used to last what, 2 years?), and no updates to Windows 95
By 2000, I am happy to go with GDW's assumption that computers are essentially gone*, at least in Poland if not so much elsewhere.
(*If I have to run with 'EMP worked out worse than it would IRL', I'm OK with that - after all, we also get by with the whole 'everything can run on alcohol' premise.)