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Post-apocalyptic scenario - making your own computer after TS has HTF ?
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If and when TSHTF... how high a technology level do you think will what's left of society have ?
No power grid, or almost none (maybe locally ?)
Destabilized society with everything you people have already been preparing for - or, if you didn't, polemize heavily on GLP...
I have been thinking whether it would still be possible to have and use computers. Obviously, some source of power would be needed. But I have had a yet more "bizarre" idea. What if you were able to build your own computer yourself ?
What skills would be needed for this to be possible ?
Many skills, let there be no doubt about it. The basic knowledge you would need is what computers are, what exactly they are supposed to do, how they work, their anatomy (what they consist of physically), etc.
Basically, you would have to know all about computers. You would also have to have a very good knowledge of electronics and electricity.
In the worst case scenario, you would have to build it from scratch, so you would have to have knowledge about how to handle, shape, and tool the materials you will be using, be it scavenged plastic, metal, whatever else... or you would have to simply know how to produce them. The fact those materials are today mass produced doesn't mean it is impossibe to manufacture them in your kitchen, so to speak.
This might even entail knowledge (n the absolute worst, worst case scenario) about mining (for metals), extracting ore, and having the tools necessary for using the ore.
We have to be realistic however and realize it just isn't possible to fabricate certain things such as chips or integrated circuits as you need high precision machinery for this (just making fine wires with enough precision would be tricky enough, after you have been able to take the time to learn it). You would probably have to revert to using older technology replacing the chips and the integrated circuits with whatever they had before those (but improving on it with the knowledge we have today). Who knows - maybe you would wind up with a computer filling up several rooms. This obviously, all goes only if you want a real electronic computer, not an abacus or a simple old calculating machine...
Very likely all the necessary knowledge exists in books and manuals out there... apart from this, the only other thing which is needed is the manuals skills, the tools, and the materials.
And, of course, an adequate power source.
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