Entry 55: "Technology of Tomorrow" 4.8.80
We discovered something interesting today with the terminals. In our most recent game-a modified version of Ruby Ruins base game-we had it broken into an install disk and a run disk. After we uploaded the install disk into a terminal we had hooked up in Joe's room we had to wait a while until it was ready. While we were doing that we went out and got something to eat, then came back. I put the holotape in and the game loaded. No big deal, right?
I put the game into the wrong terminal. See, right now Joe has two terminals in his room-one for all the stuff we've been messing with and his work one. They look identical, and given how poor my sense of direction is I mistook the one for the other. Logically, the terminal without the install disk shouldn't have loaded the game-it should've given an error message. But it worked.
Joe's terminals are both connected to each other by a cable running across the room, but they have their own holotape readers. We disconnected them and it didn't work, reconnected and it did. Somehow tethering the two makes the downloaded programs share between the two terminals that are connected without having to reinstall it on the other terminal. Hypothetically if we could connect other terminals we could form a web. All the information would be shared without having to tax a single terminal too much. It would solve our game issue and maybe do some more⦠I remember my dad mentioning how at work they had a mail system in place in their office terminals, but what if we could use this to share information or programs? We have enough spare parts to try something with all the junk left over from the old observation room. It might be worth trying to see how it goes.
**Author's Note**
Hello everyone! Sorry about the delays between postings. I'm currently teaching virtually and it is taking a lot of my time and energy to do so. I promise that there will still be weekly posting on this, Introduction, and Best Left Untold. Thank you all for sticking with me. I normally don't ask this, but if you could review I would appreciate it-I've put a fair bit of time and energy into this fic and I have been feeling a bit worn out recently. If it isn't going in the right direction feel free to let me know, but I just want to make sure that people are reading. Anyway, sorry for the spiel, thanks again for staying with this!
