Tbh this makes more sense than the typewriters do in the first place! Who's using typewriters when the whole Commonwealth is full of CRT style computers in every office?
Loving this collection so far, can't wait to see the AiO release come back! Is that still being worked on or was it abandoned?
Joking aside, given presence of 1970s-style PC terminals in FO4, it's previously occured to me the "fancy" 2070s typewriter could be made a lore friendly-enough early electronic typewriter. Beyond my skills and I doubt many modellers even remember them...
In Fallout lore, the computer chip was never invented, that is why they use holo-tapes instead of thumb-drives, etc. However, the lore is quite contradictory, because how the hell can they have Robots with Artificial Intelligence if the computer chip was never invented. Robobrain's are the only exception because their AI is powered by actual human brains. But the rest of the Robots having AI doesn't make any sense when the computer chip was never invented. So therefor, since the lore is contradictory, then it's perfectly fine to have modern laptop computers in Fallout as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah you're talking old-Fallouts' lore, which Beth re-jig on the fly. Transistors are noted in Cabot's terminal, iirc, as arriving in around 2020s, 75 years later than our time line (1947, mainly 1950s). But even if they didn't use them to make early chips they could (and would have to) use VMEs (vacuum microelectronics) to make even the bigger Fallout tech we see by 2060s. But all that's by-the-by, because a) we know they had access to reverse-engineer alien tech by then; and b) we see terminals and pipboys. So an electronic typewriter could and indeed more logically would be common by say 2050s as a developmental step toward all the fancier "newer technology" just as they were for us back in late-1970s and thru the '80s (I used one to type up research reports at home in 1990s).
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Loving this collection so far, can't wait to see the AiO release come back! Is that still being worked on or was it abandoned?