What is availble in t2k

[Mohoender]

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.

I agree especially since many would have been shot down when the nukes were dropped. However, more would have been lost during the following panics and broken during riots and pillages. Rioters tend to take the TV and send the computers out the window (especially at the time). Still, you have no power to run them, and many more would have simple being left there, slowly getting out of order from simple neglect. They don't tend to survive very well rain falling through the holes in the roofs, chickens dropping eggs on top of them, dogs trying to find what they are all about and cats playing with the keyboard (that last one is a real life story as my sister had a cat which took out the keys of her labtop one by one. Then, it took out, the components behind the keys. I loved that cat)

Still, I agree and had a few computers around in my own campaigns. People with a plan had kept some of them (wether or not their plans were smart or healthy was not the issue).